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Re: Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app

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This isn't a project developed for the public sector really. Afaik it's a privately funded, for profit, product that has been licensed by several states in Germany by now. Apart from that the official (indeed publicly funded) Corona-Warn-App did a much better job at this. (They actually did follow all the recent best practices in software-develoment + it's (mostly) run as a free software project, taking community con…

Sounds like a contractor developing something that gets paid with public money.

Sure. It's made by SAP.

Re: Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app

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How would you recommend to indicate sarcasm in the absence of nonverbal cues which a written medium necessarily entails?

My guess would be that they dislike sarcasm in general.

Yeah I just totally hate sarcasm, has nothing to with /s being overused where it's super obvious.

Re: Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app

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My guess would be that they dislike sarcasm in general.

Yeah I just totally hate sarcasm, has nothing to with /s being overused where it's super obvious.

This got too meta for me now. /s

Re: Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app

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Oh the irony. The LUCA app has been co-initiated and financed by Smudo [0], a famous German rapper. He was a supporter of Metallica suing Napster back in 2000 for copyright violation [1]. [0] https://www.chip.de/news/Kontaktverfolgung-mit-Luca-App-von-... [1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Smudo-vs-Napster-Da-...

It has been 21 years . Can we let the past go?

> It has been 21 years. Can we let the past go?

Nope.

https://youtu.be/LeKX2bNP7QM

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