I confess the subject gets me confused, but my guesses are that you either are using newer information (that article is pretty old), or that you’re using information that doesn’t apply to all OSs.

I certainly had this problem happening before, the software was multi-platform, but I think it was observed on windows

In this case you already exist. You only get the right to exist after you do exist, or we would have to discuss the rights of inexistent people, and that would be very confusing