(And Russian)

This has always been the risk.

Now, I’m a Linux user and really don’t like Unity the game engine. Unity the desktop was cool, on a side note, even though I’ve never used it for long periods of time.

Actually yes.

In my childhood it wasn’t very easy to find a licensed copy (TBF, even pirate copy sometimes), but demos would be distributed with magazines etc.

And after playing a demo which you like a licensed honestly bought copy becomes emotionally much better than piracy.

It was a working mechanism. For games which are not crap anyway.

If I’d want to rewatch Babylon V, I’d pirate it. Same for Star Wars (not even talking about despecialized editions, I just don’t want to give a dime to Disney).

It’s funny, I’ve never met anybody who’d have that kind of experience and use the word “hacker” in this meaning simultaneously.

A lot of the people who think IP jives well with the internet were the ones who looked at me weird when I said I had online friends circa 2000

This checks out.

Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit.

I remember exactly the opposite, people being much more acutely aware of the difference, and Stallman being much more popular than now.

people like Bill Gates stealing the foundations of technology

Clarification? Movies about Steve Jobs excluded.