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user-inactivated · 3426 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we cogently refute "stealing is stealing"?
It didn't use to be that way (perhaps back in 2002 people were still mostly selling software), but over a period of time (to about 2009-2010, maybe?) it became the norm.
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user-inactivated · 3426 days ago · link ·
True. But has it been true from the perspective of a regular consumer outside of one of those large institutions? That's the perspective I was talking about before, and to me, personally, it seems to have shifted from around those time periods onward.
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user-inactivated · 3426 days ago · link ·
Do you mean that the software consumers not part of an institution has access to has been software sold as a product to them? I guess that's probably true, if you ignore the work of the free software community. What significance do you see in that though?