The difference here, I think, is a matter of degree. A perfectly normal trait can be a pathology when taken to an extreme. Consider the difference between feeling sad sometimes and suffering severe depression.
I spent almost 2 years writing a book for O'Reilly. I get a percentage of book sales, and royalties on views in the Learning platform. This project is, very literally, stealing from me.
Please, just buy the book. I -- and many other authors -- worked very hard on them.
> This project is, very literally, stealing from me.
That is, literally, not true. I have always had a safari subscription through my employers, but found the app to be unpleasant to use. Using this project to generate epub is not much different than me printing the pages through browser as pdf, or saving the HTML page to read offline.
It would be stealing if I distributed the generated epub, but then that's not really the author of the tool stealing from you.
How do you mean? If it's a closed system, you'd be able to time travel but you wouldn't be able to exist in your current form, as your particles would just move back to their previous positions during that time period?
Yes, this is what I used to do when building deployment artefacts in chroots with unionfs. I was asking to see if there had been some new developments since then.
You made my day