Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • @zerofk@lemm.eeEnglish
    25•1 year ago

    I work on software which is pirated. It is even sold by crackers, who make money off my work. This does not make me proud.

    What does make me proud is when a paying customer says they love a specific feature, or that our software saves them a lot of manual work.