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On the contrary, I deliberately selected this example because the farmers using hormones to mass produce milk fast have successfully lobbied to force the organic milk farmers to label their organic milk saying "There's no proof the hormone milk is bad."

It's the same argument here.

The hormones accelerate milk production, like the cross-platform dev tools, and the end result is claimed to be the same, like you just claimed. Defensiveness about production methods and indistinguishable product still don't mean Whole Foods has to stock milk made that way.




Except there are verifiable differences in the product of hormone augmented, traditionally industrialized milk and the organic milk Whole Foods stocks. There are legitimate ethical arguments about environmental impacts and the treatment of animals between both systems.

There are not legitimate ethical arguments against someone coding something in python and porting it over to another environment. Without investigating the company in question, one could not determine what a piece of software was originally written in.

Even if something is technically legal or not worth pursuing in court, it still doesn't mean a company isn't acting uncouthly.




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