Steal What Is Stolen

Programming Code Software Designers Developers Open-source Stack-overflow Intellectual property

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Steal What Is Stolen

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The coding community's greatest philosophical divide captured in four panels! While designers clutch their pearls over similar ideas ("How DARE you use the same shade of blue-gray that I discovered after three existential crises?"), programmers have transcended intellectual property altogether.

The bottom panels reveal the beautiful communist utopia of code sharing. "I stole your code" isn't an accusation—it's practically a love letter. And the response? Not rage, but the zen-like acknowledgment that nobody truly "owns" code. It's just temporarily borrowed from Stack Overflow before being pasted into production environments worldwide.

This is why programmers make terrible pirates. They'd leave a thank-you note and pull request after stealing your treasure.

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