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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by jacknews on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:41PM (#30081796)
Um, no, there's a very clear difference between 'borrowing' ideas, building on other people's achievements etc, and outright theft, when you copy someone's detailed designs wholesale, especially from secret proprietary plans obtained through illegal espionage.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by southerntofu on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:37AM (#30136114)
This "very clear difference" is the center of many trials in Hollywood / Silicon Valley history so i wouldn't say it's that clearcut. I personally don't see copyright in any way as a mechanism to bring retribution to the creative minds (instead it serves to capture value into big corps and let the artists starve), but as long as we have to deal with it i'll keep publishing stuff as copyleft so that the capitalist vampires think twice before "borrowing" my code.
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