China has been at this for centuries and is doing just fine. I can imagine Russia has too for a while and this in particular seems to have had very few negative consequences for them.

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john_strinlai 4 hours ago | parent [-]

china also uses child labor, and are doing just fine. shall we adopt that practice as well?

different in severity, but same logic.

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deaux 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Completely irrelevant.

> the entire fabric deteriorates quickly afterwards.

It just disproves this entirely. China has been at it for decades, which entire fabric has detoriated? Have licenses been meaningless for decades because of the existence of China?

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john_strinlai 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>which entire fabric has detoriated?

the moral fabric of not stealing software and ignoring licenses.

>Have licenses been meaningless for decades because of the existence of China?

uh, in china? apparently yes!

if that is how you want the rest of the world to operate too, that is your opinion. i think it will suck, but whatever.

selectively applied law is fun when the laws are selectively applied against people you dont like. just gotta make sure you never get put in the wrong pile.

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deaux 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Adherence to licenses is completely meaningless if it's a one-way street. The whole concept of them is based on reciprocality. Since there's zero chance a Russian court is going to hold up a Western entity's complaint about a Russian entity's violation of their license, reciprocality is dead.

This is a very mainstream concept so I'm not sure why you're so worked up about it.

	▲	john_strinlai 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>This is a very mainstream concept so I'm not sure why you're so worked up about it. i am not worked up, but that is a good attempt at undermining my point by coming at me personally instead of my words.