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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by jdrc on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:33AM (#30587002)
you would not want a country in which politicians decide alone against the interest of their businesses and their own people

That's pretty much exactly what Putin or Kim jong un is doing

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-end-of-histor...

Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by contravariant on Monday March 07, 2022 @09:01AM (#30587860)
It's the 'their own people' part that's problematic. If they only decide against the interest of businessed but in the interest of the people then I have no problems with it.
Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by twa999 on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:39AM (#30587041)
thank you world bank economist. You truly have the best interests of the people at heart.
Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by dang on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:26PM (#30592894)
Please stop posting flamewar comments. We ban accounts that do that, because it destroys what this place is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.