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> Why would shitty clones with malware existing somehow damage the original app?

Best case, you get angry emails. Hell, Daniel Stenberg of curl fame got “I will slaughter you” because someone bundled libcurl and included a copyright notice.[1]

Worst case, certain scammers are very good at pretending to the the real thing.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/



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