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Story: Are developers stealing code?
Posted by: Derek Clarke (Friday 4 June 2004, 6:01 PM)
My experience is the opposite.
Once as part of a small conxultancy doing contracting to pay the rent, we openly offered some code we'd developed in-house to speed up one of our contracting projects.
The customer accepted the offer, but when push came to shove refused to pay up as per our informal agreement.
We decided not to delete all the stolen code, but were tempted. However we didn't have much spare cash, and couldn't afford an open-ended legal battle.
Ever since then I've avoided any possible code re-use across projects not sharing a customer.
It's just not worth the hassle, and you make more money by reinventing the wheel.
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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
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My experience is the opposite.
Once as part of a s... Derek Clarke -
its worse than that I could have patented the cons... the law is an ass
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