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Is Windows FOSS now? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

While I agree with the general idea, please don't call piracy "stealing". It's not stealing, whether you do it or some giant corpo.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    While I agree², their use of "steal" makes sense in the analogy because the apple doesn't belong to the "thief"; besides, you can't pirate an apple

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Evidently you can!

    “Apple piracy is a problem,” said Lynnell Brandt, chief executive officer of Proprietary Variety Management, the Yakima firm hired to handle the Cosmic Crisp rollout. “Some are propagating trees without permission. Some are stolen in the middle of the night.”

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