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   Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 02:49:35 JST Martin Owens :inkscape:

   • Mr Ghost

   There's this thesis in @Hbomberguy latest video about plagiarism¹ that talks about the way plagiarists *think* about the people they copy from as being *beneath* them. Socially acceptable to take advantage of.

   It's a fascinating behaviour.

   Does #OpenSource have users who think of the creators as contemptible? Probably not, most of the users I talk to aren't like that at all.

   Most. One or two have rung this bell for me over the years though

   ¹ 4 hours long! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ go watch it!

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     Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 02:49:41 JST Martin Owens :inkscape:

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     The behaviour in OpenSource actually looks a lot like plagiarism. Claiming you made a program, posting it to the Microsoft store as your own work. Sometimes lazy re-brands while legal (to some nuanced degrees) are quite cringe.

     It's thankfully very rare. But we sometimes have to ask stores to shut down inkscape sales if it looks contemptible.

     And I think I have better words to express what's different. Does the redistribution respect the project?