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I am not saying you are. I am saying there are a lot of valid reasons and it is not as simple as “if I do it I am for it but when big bad company does it it is bad”.

I support piracy because I think:

• consolidation ruins concurrency
• I hate ads in services I pay for
• copyright laws kills creativity
• the USA is lobbying the entire world to adopt their view and fuck them
• those laws are there to benefit big companies and not individuals
• it is legal where I live because we pay state tax to have access to media

First they need to destroy your income, then they can make you do whatever they want

They don’t need an economy. They need obedient workers

A company in Europe has to respect patents. Same for a company in the USA. Not a company in China. Of course this has an impact. Failing to grasp this is at best naive at worst purposefully misleading.

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We should be critical of our manufacturers but we should also not forget China is basically getting its R&D for free by stealing tech from everybody (all do, but some more than others).

How do you want to do this? Linux is a kernel the world relies on. It powers your car, your fridge, your satellite, your phone, the entire Internet, the army, etc. Nothing comes close to Linux in market share. The distros are built upon the kernel. System76 may have to comply, but the other maintainers don’t give a flying fuck. They could even write a small line somewhere on their repo that says “this distro is not allowed in California” and call it a day.