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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by cynicalkane on Thursday March 22, 2012 @11:40AM (#3740195)
Now, another scary thought: what if someone stole the code and databases to your web-service?

This exactly.

It's easy for a community oriented around mostly around things like webapps, SaaS, enterprisey stuff to hop on the anti-IP bandwagon. It just so happens that there's no convenient ways of pirating their software.

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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by smsm42 on Thursday March 22, 2012 @06:01PM (#3742247)
Nothing would happen if somebody stole their software. Exactly nothing. You think if you somehow copied Zuckerberg's hard disk in 2004, you'd have the billion-dollar business now? No, you'd have a pile of 8-year-old useless code. The code doesn't matter, the people building the company and writing that code to accomodate specific (and rapidly changing) needs matter.
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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by eli_gottlieb on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:13PM (#3740423)
It doesn't "just so happen". SaaS and web-apps arose deliberately on the marketplaces as a way of producing software that could not be pirated without actually getting past firewalls and cracking private servers.
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