And of course, it traces back to microslop.

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    I just cheked, you can literally search “minecraft free” on play store, and find countless minecraft clones there. Why wouldnt googel and microslopt take down this games?

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      Probably because none of those “malware in disguise” listings are popular enough to be a threat to their bottom line.

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        Literally the first two results have over 100 millions of downloads each, compared to minecrafts 50

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          They might not be worried about sloppy copycats. But Luanti is a solid, evolving, open source project and thus an actual threat.

          IMO as the “open source revolution” continues, capital will continue to attack. That’s a major subtext to the “AI” grift too. Securitizing “IP” against “China”, etc. They would rather have a nuclear holocaust than lose their “IP” privilege to open source software.