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The DRM doesn’t provide any benefit… to you. It does benefit the developers and publishers.

Often you can find out what (if any) DRM is used before you purchase. Check out GOG.com if you want to avoid DRM entirely.


> Check out GOG.com if you want to avoid DRM entirely.

I already avoid most DRMs since they don't normally run on Wine/Proton.

(As mentioned, cracks are available and are legal to use for compatibility and archival; though developing nor sharing them is, go figure. Recent document about such circumvention exemptions: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-10-28/pdf/2021-2...)

The other thing is that I use mostly FOSS stuff so I don't normally have to worry about DRM breaking things or causing me issues.


>The DRM doesn’t provide any benefit… to you. It does benefit the developers and publishers.

That's cool. I don't run software on my machines, using my power, using my bandwidth, and hw resources to make publisher's/developer's lives easier. They want it? They can keep it.


I have encountered the same attitude in a very small project I took over maintenance of.

There can be a degree of entitlement in users, I think even more so if they don’t know _how_ they can help.

Many of us have been under the gun to fix problems in software we haven’t written, and working through that can be challenging and frustrating.

It blows my mind that Richard both provided a fix and also caused the reporter to re-evaluate how he was communicating.


VS code is not really that “open” either.

The on-by-default telemetry and license restrictions come to mind


This might be helpful.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

It is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's 'vscode' repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.


I believe the license for the VScode C# plug-in prohibits using it with VScodium.

I didn’t know this until recently when someone pointed it out.

https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

Thought it was relevant since OP is talking about a Linux IDE for C#


I hope this is not in poor taste, but I find it pretty relevant to the discussion (and hilarious)

https://youtu.be/ipDmsxQVxIM


Would you also consider Google search a recipe for stalking? It provides a larger set of results, but you can easily narrow down your results to social media sites...

It’s a tool, much like a knife is a tool. They can be used for good or bad. The tool is indifferent.


And don’t forget bartenders!



Thanks! I didn't even know about that show.


lol typical Hewer!


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