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Story: Are developers stealing code?
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 4 June 2004, 11:26 AM)
Programs are written in languages: There is a finite number of ways of saying or doing the same thing. Column writers use sentences that we se in other articles and no one complains. If you copy the look feel etc of a program then you may infringe but if you need to perform a task and you have working code that does it, use it. As the programs are actually compiled before running the copyright surely will then lay with the compiler writers as it is their code that is being reproduced.
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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
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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 -
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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