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Closing Off An Open-Source Product

OT - Closing Off An Open-Source ProductJohn J. Lee phrxy at csv.warwick.ac.uk
Thu Apr 12 21:11:42 EDT 2001
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Chris Gonnerman wrote:
[...]
> that the "hacker ethic" is the real protection here anyway, because if
> a "big guy" steals a major piece of, oh, say, Apache and incorporates it
> in a closed source program, it's darn hard to prove.
[...]

If you suspected it was happening, you could look for the bugs.  There are
many different ways to have bugs in your programs, as many of us have
discovered, so a relatively small bug collection is a good fingerprint.


John


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