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lazygamer:
Ah I see, so if you want to make massive profits you churn out software that is awesome! Still, isn't it easier for competitors to steal boatloads of raw source code then they claim "we didn't take anything"? With closed source software, it's not as easy because everything is in machine code.

Am I missing something here?

voidmain:
But it's just like anything else. What's to prevent you from taking your radio apart and build one exactly the same, mass produce it, slap your name on it and sell it?  If you break a license/copyright and get caught, you go to court, if found guilty you go to jail. No difference.

And can you imagine how far technology would be right now if EVERYTHING was open source and there was never closed source software?  I think you would probably have those thought controlled machines by now.  And it would be the *true* innovators that get ahead.

[ August 01, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

lazygamer:
Wow...

I guess you could always have some well designed anti-piracy code laced with your regular source code(and the source code malfunctions without this seemingly important code, so it's a bitch to get out). Then you run an anti piracy checker program and it can receive certain signals from the targeted file, showing stolen sourcecode and how much is used. Of course it's not spyware, a suspected binary must be on the same computer to be checked.

Such code would be less likely to be cracked because you'd be a "good guy" company, and hackers would be less likely to crack something that would only allow greedy MS-wannabe corporations to to steal your hard work and implement it shoddily. Because it would still be totally open source, it would be possible for people to prove that it's not MS-ish spyware.

Is that all possible?

Calum:
lazygamer, until you understand that it is IMPOSSIBLE to steal anything from an open source piece of software, you can not understand what open source is all about. No personal offence intended.

I think that you should read this document here.

choasforages:
um microsoft does it all the time calum. i might try to use the new cracking leqilazation meant for the mpaa and riaa to try to get into microsofts inter networks and steal the source code and look for shit under the gpl. and then i won't be responsible for cracking their boxes cuase i found illigal copyright material. or i will tell someone to do it to challenge the laws. if only the fsf would use gestepo tactics to keep software free, we wouldn't have the analkunts at microsoft. owell, sorry for the rant.

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