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		beezischillin on Oct 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemet... I don’t really think he was worried, they sell endless amounts of licenses to the government. In Hungary Ballmer got eggs thrown at him by an OSS activist for that exact reason in 08.

judge2020 on Oct 15, 2021 [–]

I feel like a national government would be the last org to need to worry about licensing software, given lawsuits won’t do much and nobody’s going to start a war over it.

wesleywt on Oct 15, 2021 | [–]

Governments do business with foreign companies and governments.

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