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Story: Are developers stealing code?
Posted by: Robert Westwood (Friday 4 June 2004, 4:25 PM)
Bob Jones is spot on with his statment that the survey is flawed.
I too took part in the survey and posted a comment pointing out what I thought were flaws in the methodology, but as in Mr. Jone's case, received no response.
The survey made no distinction regarding the licencing of code, or the terms underwhich code had previously been written, and again made me llook like a blatant code thief.
The entire questions were written with the mindset that code belongs to an organisation, and any use of it outside of the organisation is theft. Whereas, of course, the situation is a lot more complicated than that. A true test of developer's comprehension of the true situation: now that would be an interesting survey.
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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
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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 -
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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