HollowedLeaf

This has been a problem for a few days. Apostrophes just break comments for some reason.

Honestly, this is fine, and way more generous than most workplaces.

Do you think depriving someone of property should be treated differently in a court of law than unauthorized copying or breach of a license agreement?

In short, no. Both are violations of existing property rights. Both lead to damages based on the value of the property right that has been infringed. The law deals in an individuals rights to control their property, not the physical items themselves. Legally, there is no distinction between rights in physical property and rights in intangibles. The only relevant questions are: 1) whether the purported owner has the right to control the thing in question; and 2) whether the infringer/thief violated the owners right to that control.

Oh ffs. At no point in over 200 years of US copyright law has that argument meant anything. Yes, using someone elses source code is not literally depriving them of a physical item. But colloquially, everyone calls that stealing, everyone knows what that means in this context, and being pedantic about the terminology changes nothing about the underlying rights or actions at issue.

But it is still stealing, in that the code is subject to copyright protections and the right to use the code is subject to the terms of the license. By failing to abide by the terms of the license, these companies used code that wasnt theirs without the proper permission. The fact the terms of the license required attribution/disclosure instead of a licensing fee is completely irrelevant – a breach of the license is a breach of the license.

Not only that, but a lot of code is either so routine/unoriginal or necessary for programs to function that its not actually copyright protected. If you check your code against a repository of open source code, youd probably end up with false flags all over the place.

Gotta meet an Apple Genius in a back alley and trade them some spinal fluid from a living saint.

Hey now, Moonlighter and Into the Breach are legitimately great.

I have no interest in this movie but I cant deny thats great casting.

Yeah its a weird regional thing. Folks in the UK got mad about it and people in the US largely had no idea why. One of the risks of having a global audience is occasionally running into colloquialisms you didnt anticipate.

I will be impressed with someone trying to reinvent the calendar when they come up with a replacement to the gregorian monstrosity we are currently stuck with.

This is exactly what I was trying to say in my bugged comments!

Nvm, comment bugged out

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I think there are two things going, and they’re kind of interrelated: 1) chasing growth, in that TikTok took off like a rocket and everyone wants a piece of that success; and 2) a deep, existential fear that once users migrate to TikTok (or whatever the new hot social media app is at the moment), they won’t come back.

None of these companies make or sell anything tangible, all they have is their users and ad dollars. When it comes down to it, they’re all just desperate to keep attention, and that means chasing short-term fads.