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pkd_lives:
Totally off-topic

Aren't you automatically assuming Open Source means GPL or BSD license included? Open Source means The code for the programme is open - you can read it from start to finish. It does not imply anything else.

Now you automatically have copyright of that code you wrote. Anyone can steal the code (but stealing is ILLEGAL).

If the code is given out, then you can use it in terms of the license (if any) issued with it.

If you can read the code does not mean you have the right to edit, change, improve, remove or in any way alter that code - unless the license gives you that right - but you could, and that means if company X stops trading you can still use the code for whatever it was you were doing, and update it yourself.

To steal code would backfire, because people should insist all program code they use is open. That way people can see the code in all software, and eventually someone would see the stolen code, and realise that either that program stole the code, or the other program they saw stole the code, hence someone would get prosecuted for license or copyright infringement, and people like us would be so incensed that that company would loose sales as a result. The old addage if you can't do the time don't do the crime applies here.

On-topic

I'd piss on their mains transformer, causing huge power spikes that would destroy the hard drives. When they realise the expense of replacing them and getting their files back under windows they'll  change to Linux.

I would suggest the ashes head towards a nice Kerr-Newman Singularity, whereby they can be crushed and rebuilt into raw material to become something useful to the next universe.

[ August 02, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]

voidmain:
You are absolutely correct about open source.  We just always seem to steer the conversation toward GPL because I think most of us would like to see ALL software eventually fall under this license.  It ensures the code stays open, unlike BSD and other open source licenses.

TheQuirk:
Take 15 billion for myself, invest everything I can into Apple (except my 15 billion) and close the company.

Kintaro:
For a start i would fire all the workers as they obviosly dont know what there doing. Then i would destroy every copy of Windows. Then i would give most the money too Open Source developers. And live off the rest, I would buy fast cars and hire supermodels to shave my arse hair.

==OR==

I could increase the monopoly assinsate all the Linux Developers. Buy out Apple and sun and start chargeing 10x what they are now.

===OR===

I could use the money to take over the world! ba hahahaha

TheQuirk:
give one US dollar to every human on the planet.

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