[–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'd say FOSS is not more political than paying taxes. FOSS is just another way of using the copyright law enforcement without which FOSS cannot exist. If no copyright law enforcement is in place, then the GPL license wouldn't have power. So FOSS is just another way a law abiding citizen may use their rights/entitlement and perform their obligation with copyright law like how they have right/entitlement and obligation from taxes.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I am surprised this is not the norm, It looks like that this person have a tendency to lean into the extreme (like with his previous blog about chaining). I always feel like every syntactic sugar of any kind are to be treated like any other design/style philosophy. Too much of it is not good. Look at Java that is OOP to the extreme. Any language would quickly became unusable if any one of the features/design philosophy are (ab)used.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    No, cracking the game vs just copying the downloaded file is not equivalent. How did you not see that? With copying the file it means the original file is already DRM free and does not require steam. So steam is just a glorified downloader and launcher in that sense

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