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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/7233504

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alt text: "the state of the animation industry"

"you're pirating that show? don't you wanna support the creators?" "I AM the creator."

"haha the only way I can show future employers my work is to send a link to a bunch of pirated copies of it haha what a nightmare haha"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't save anything to show later?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Probably their contracts forbid them to, so even if they save something, it is practically piracy anyway.

Most code written by software engineers work the same way. The code is owned by the company, the employee can't keep any of it after you leave or is fired.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Alpha FOSS vs. beta proprietary software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Every job you mean, of course anything you do at work is your company's property.