OT - Closing Off An Open-Source Product

[John J. Lee]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Chris Gonnerman wrote:
[...]
> that the "hacker ethic" is the real protection here anyway, because if
> a "big guy" steals a major piece of, oh, say, Apache and incorporates it
> in a closed source program, it's darn hard to prove.
[...]

If you suspected it was happening, you could look for the bugs.  There are
many different ways to have bugs in your programs, as many of us have
discovered, so a relatively small bug collection is a good fingerprint.


John