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user-inactivated · 3422 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we cogently refute "stealing is stealing"?
It has always been that way. Internal applications used by businesses, government, universities and other institutions aren't as visible, but they've always made up the bulk of software being written.
user-inactivated · 3422 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 · 3422 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?