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same for many forms of media, and for a lot of physical objects such as luxury items fakes. and we're talking utility here, so I bet lots of people use counterfeit electric equipment because it just works.
of course then comes ingenuity and community, but copyright is so dead, that it cannot be resurrected meaningfully at all perhaps at this moment.
archive.is -> https://archive.is/8Hvmu
Most of the GIS people I know, and I really know some, are totally oblivious about the underlying magic of QGIS or ArcPRO, and many of them would happily go away from both for many reasons.
Mind U - ArcPRO is also an ecosystem, no only maps layer, is actually an ERP of sorts, when tied with the ArcServer and the rest in their design. But is quite heavy, super bloated (ArcPRO brings own Python, Postgres, Java, and perhaps the whole proj+geos libs also and whatnot).