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Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by loceng on Friday December 20, 2013 @09:24PM (#6945416)
It sounded to me like the legal firms wanted to do the formal code review themselves, independently.
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Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by mgkimsal on Friday December 20, 2013 @09:43PM (#6945471)
How much of the software they run do they do their own code reviews on? That sounds weird (not impossible, just weird).
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Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by loceng on Friday December 20, 2013 @11:26PM (#6945759)
I imagine it's the only way lawyers could off-set liabilities onto someone else if something else ever did happen where confidential information was breached - and they'd be the best ones to know.
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Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by mgkimsal on Saturday December 21, 2013 @08:42AM (#6946628)
The lawyers I worked with years ago never even thought to ask for code reviews of WordPerfect, and later MS Office or Windows. And they sure as hell knew they had 0 chance of suing MS should anything ever go wrong.
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