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Story: Are developers stealing code?
Posted by: Bob Jones (Friday 4 June 2004, 5:50 AM)
I took part in this survey and found it to be deceptive in the way questions were asked.
The questions were multiple choice, and often all of the choices could be interpretted to mean that I supported code theft.
As I recall, many of the questions were asked without specifying the software licencing terms involved.
In ignoring the possibilty the open source and other software can often be legally incorporated into many development projects, my answers to the questions made it sound like I supported blatant code theft. I made a comment to the flawed nature of the survey to the out-law.com folks, but never recieved a response.
There is no way that this survey was intended to be fair and balanced evaluation of illegal code reuse in the software industry.
ZDNet and Michael Parsons need to do a little more due diligence on this one.
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Story: Are developers stealing code?
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It is problematic that source code is not always t... Anonymous -
I took part in this survey and found it to be dece... Bob Jones -
dont use this code, it's stolen!!!
if( flag==true... Joe Lois
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Programs are written in languages: There is a fini... Anonymous
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I am glad Joe used Lower case there. If he had use... Steve Bell
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Bob Jones is spot on with his statment that the su... Robert Westwood
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My experience is the opposite.
Once as part of a s... Derek Clarke
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its worse than that I could have patented the cons... the law is an ass
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