Nah, idc if it's electron or not. What I do care about is if it is a _wrapper_ around someone else's application or not.

If you write your own whatsapp/telegram/whatever client, be my guest. But just taking someone else's product and bare-minimum repackaging it is not the level of merit that would warrant 10 years of literally anything; let alone asking for payment for it.

Impostorware

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Also, just think about what a slap in the face this is for the people putting in the hard work of actually building the aforementioned web clients.

Some random other person comes along, takes their stuff and receives all the credit.

Which, yeah, okay, utilizing market inefficiencies. So that's clever. But it is also rather unethical. In my book, anyway.

Your ethics may vary.

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Having empathy is good and important and all, but you need to point it at the right people.

However, those rarely are the ones that are good at storytelling (in which Franz absolutely exceeds. Good job.)

Anyway. I repeat myself. My point is that I think you might've automatically deployed a defense script, which is good in itself, but bad when you're being effectively manipulated into deploying it against your own interests.

Which is.. well. ZIRP and its consequences