>>9422141getting your start through illegitimacy is a pretty bad stain, it basically is telling all newcomers to a field that no matter how good they are someone can get ahead of them just by lying and stealing. that's not how better things are made, that's how you get shitty people in high positions
it'd be like if i got a job presenting someone else's code as my own, and then getting enough experience on the job that i can then code well enough after several years. the end result is the same as if i just did it for real to begin with, but it's still immoral, if that means anything