Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social

Microsoft declares Right to Plagiarize

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

Just thinking about how our university wanted us to post all our scholarly articles for free as a way to break for-profit journals and many of my non-profit publishers have said no way. I’m starting to think publishers were wise.

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@regalpastry.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 08:15 UTC

Microsoft: the company with (now-ex-) executives who claimed Open Source was Communist and then tried to make $ from royalties of Open Source software? That Microsoft? The one that is violently anti-piracy? That Microsoft? Seriously, software companies don't see other industries IP as they see SW.

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𝑆𝓷𝝰𝐜𝘬𝜶𝑰𝗝а𝒄𝓀𝒶ℓ🔞🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 (Coms Open) @snackaljackal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 00:21 UTC

Then i hope its alright if i plagiarize his left kidney and sell it

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MouseMallow @mousemallow.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 00:28 UTC

Does Microsoft have a bottomless legal fund?

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@ericmn.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 04:57 UTC

I guess MS Office just became free.

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Robby @robbysimpson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:39 UTC

kinda giving the game away here

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Benjamin L Clark @benjclark.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

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Kieran @kierbear.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 09:07 UTC

huh, that's where i found all my microsoft products. on the web. which means they're free.

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ROTTIERIDGE 🔞 @ridge-millz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

that's not how freeware works you fucking idiots

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:29 UTC

Gosh, I can tell when I'm tired as I struggle to remember 3 words for a repost...

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:06 UTC

Capitalists always steal. Words or land it’s all their manifest destiny. It’s what they are. Thieves and liars, murderers for profit.

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artwells @artwells.com [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:51 UTC

I feel completely absolved about those windows codes I used way back when. Thousands of dollars I felt guilty about, but no, it's all okay now.

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Stuart Watt @morungos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:32 UTC

I’d love to see if they take the same view if someone happened to publish the Windows source code.

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Chloe @dj-jvnipvrr.xxx [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:28 UTC

If any of my ideas from onedrive see the light of day I'm suing their ass

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ramza saddiq @heartgold.xyz [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:31 UTC

ever put microsoft windows on the web? i say it's OK to steal it

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Curtis Wilde @curtis.wilde.one [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

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Virginia S. O'Possum @virginiaopossum.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:30 UTC

We're going to have to go back to xeroxed samizdat 'zines. I wonder if I can get an old Gestetner mimeograph...

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @arapaerangicom.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 23:28 UTC

Ahh, how quaint. Microsoft is returning to its roots, publicly.

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Dr. Wombat @aspyre.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

Time to steal anything Microsoft owns.

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David Ramos @ramosbugs.dev [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

tempted to declare my right to violate my 2012 microsoft NDA

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My Bad @mbayayangu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 00:42 UTC

Thats the last time I pay to download Office suite.

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Scarlet The Fiend @scarletthefiend.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 11:10 UTC

Microsoft hasn't heard about a license? Don't they own GitHub? GitHub constantly tells me I need to have the correct license

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Career Quartermaster @cmiciek.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

Couple this with today's scotus ruling on Chevron and msoft probably is in the clear. Same with openai, anthropic, and the lot.

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Woke Mechanic @broke-mechanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:16 UTC

Does that mean that trying to work around anti-AI tech like Glaze is a violation of the DMCA anti-curcumvention rule?

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GarbageNirvana @garbagenirvana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

Microsoft back in the fucking around phase I see

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𝐿𝓊𝒸𝒾𝒶 @andalusia.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

year of the linux desktop🙏

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Socyclist 🚴 @socyclist.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:34 UTC

Feeling pretty good about decades of pirating Windows and MS Office.

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@awfullyvague.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

Only be sure always to call it please "Research".

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Rox4 @rox4.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

So if I download and then sell Windows they won't be mad right? 🤔

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Dr M @ivalaine.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:27 UTC

Ok so if i can download their software on the web for free then its freeware right? And i can ignore their patents and copyright?

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:40 UTC

Lawsuits from CC license holders in 3, 2, 1…

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:28 UTC

You wouldn’t download a car.

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ShugunouNSFW @shugunounsfw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:20 UTC

But if you use their stuff without permission, you'll get sued.

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