refalo

I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn't realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.

if you're beautiful you don't need to be smart.

Wouldn't smartness imply discipline?

how does that make the project any less open-source?

what's next, shaming project owners for living in a house that they pay for with a corporate job?

we get it, you hate capitalism, but that doesn't mean other people want to go live in the woods too... gotta be realistic :)

If you suddenly said you identify as a bigot, they'd change their tune real quick.

IMO It's just a false flag to enable arbitrary enforcement using subjective terminology

What's not true? That you represent most pirates? I don't think you do, and I don't think a sample size of 1 is indicative of anything.

I would also argue that pirating games to see if they are good, just further proves that you "would never have bought the product in the first place."

Obviously there is some grey area here though, because one of us seems to be accounting for people that have ever played the game before, and the other is not. Buying sight-unseen vs pirating and THEN buying if it's good, is of course two different things, the latter of which I was not accounting for in my definition of "pirate".

I ask them. And I feel the same way myself

I agree, I think Adobe/MS have even said in the past that they would prefer people steal their software if the alternative means they would use a competitor instead.

except most pirates would never have bought the product in the first place... so is it really a loss for the company?

My understanding is that he was not "charged with terrorism", but NY has a provision where they can use terrorist-like criteria as one of the ways a person can be charged with first-degree murder instead of something lesser.