@hakui >lad the cat already got decapitated that's enough proof. and who are you going to press charges against in a free software project? the license is going to say it's "provided as-is and no warranties are made for the software"
Who are you going to press charges against in a proprietary software project? The "EULA" always notes that you agree that there is no warranty.

>ironically you'd have more luck pressing charges against a corpo
False - you'll have less luck - "EULAs" are now often going so far that they say you indemnify the company against even negligent losses and are not allowed to sue them and can only undergo arbitration.

>you can stop them from being a monopoly, just make a comparable competitor with feature parity lol
Just because software has feature parity won't magically make a monopoly backed by large amounts of arguably effectively stolen money and conned governments disappear.

GNU/Linux far exceeds macos in features, quantity of quality software and functionality and macos is still a monopoly.

>still a donation. does the butcher just give you their meat for no charge up front and only ask you give them money if you feel like it? no they insist on a trade. again, the difference between a donation and a buy
This is a false equivalence.

Meat is actually a physical thing and so obviously can only be sustainably traded for money or barter.

If the GNU/Meat was unlimited and the GNU/Butcher quite enjoyed carving up the GNU/Meat, clearly that GNU/Butcher would ask customers to give them money if they feel like it and the GNU/Butcher would keep on carving as long as he received enough money (some GNU/Butchers even feel that GNU/Meat carving is an art in itself and don't even ask for donations).