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pnh102 Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty Premium join:2002-05-02 Mount Airy, MD	reply to bent Re: Money for this will be hard to get said by bent: I'm not sure what you're implying by your list of Googles competition, but I really doubt that Google blatantly ripped off an OS and sold it as their own. On that note, do you think Linus Torvalds, Dr. Andrew Tannenbaum, Richard Stallman and the numerous other individuals who wrote open source software that mimicked the operation of commercially available software should be labeled as software pirates? -- "At the moment of conception."
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bent and Inga Premium join:2004-10-04 Loveland, CO Reviews: ·Comcast	I think there's a difference between "borrowing" good ideas that work and outright theft of code. I mean c'mon... they didn't even bother to change the A:\> prompt. -- »www.lp.org/issues/family-budget "That government is best which governs least" - Thoreau
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pnh102 Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty Premium join:2002-05-02 Mount Airy, MD	said by bent: I think there's a difference between "borrowing" good ideas that work and outright theft of code. But again, simply recoding someone else's idea is not the same as stealing their code. There's a million different ways to write a "Hello, world!" program and if a million people wrote said program in a unique way they might be borrowing one another's good ideas but they are not stealing each other's code. said by bent: I mean c'mon... they didn't even bother to change the A:\> prompt. If you really want to be that detailed you could say the same thing about Minix and Linux. They use the same prompt style as the old commercial Unix did prior to AT&T's liberating it in the 1990s. -- "At the moment of conception."
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