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I think that this sense that software is special comes from the fact that we just pantomime a respect for authorship, using open source as long as it requires nothing of us, never *meaningfully* treating a dependency manifest as any sort of credit for out own work, just ticking enough boxes to get the cost-cutting benefits and then moving on. We have accepted the plagiarism robot into our lives because we were already kinda okay with plagiarism all along