Yeah, that remark really bothered me and I felt like it misunderstood the point. "Works on my machine" is shorthand for the flippant dismissal that, "I don't n

Yeah, that remark really bothered me and I felt like it misunderstood the point. "Works on my machine" is shorthand for the flippant dismissal that, "I don't need to care about that bug because it didn't show up or cause problems in a deliberately ideal environment." The repo author is saying the opposite, that it "works" even in "non-ideal environments". That is, he has no inherent negative association with "cop" even in a near-dictatorship where, in practice, most cops are bad and work with impunity, since he thinks the concept is legit (enforcing law and order) even if particular jurisdictions get it wrong. So, if anything, he was saying, "it even works on forgotten legacy systems"...