[sieabah]

It's open source, you can't really steal open source software unless it was never "free and open source" to begin with.

[jazzyjackson]

You can still be a jerk by making millions of dollars without crediting the work of your own grad student

[iostream24]

And we can still piggyback a zillion projects off the IDE, the libraries and HAL, and other artifacts of this complicated and sometimes disgraceful software project, it’s not like using Nazi experiment data to engage in Arduino ecosystem pilferage, with proper credit given to {project name}

[bmitc]

Should we abide our lives by what lawyers say is right or wrong?

[iosjunkie]

Assuming what lawyers say is a reflection of what the governing law states or allows for, yes?

Want to reign in the lawyers? Start with your governments.