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"They aren't getting away with plagiarism"
- "There has been some plagiarism"
"Some plagiarism doesn't count!"
Your lack of understanding the facts of the situation, much less the definition of plagiarism isn't a strong argument.
Go on then. If copying a whole function of code verbatim INCLUDING comments like // what the fuck? is not plagiarism in the context of software, what is?
Because "no it's totally not like that" is?