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Bacteria share genes all the time. RMS would approve
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It's mostly a software development term. Bugs are the most obvious kind of tech debt. They have to be fixed or a product will slowly become unusable over time, so when you release something with bugs you're incurring "debt" they must be "paid" later by fixing them. A lot of tech debt also involves corner cutting and bad design decisions that are hard to explain briefly.