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by icebraining 5211 days ago
Employees are bound by contract. You don't need IP laws to prohibit them from sharing the code.
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davidw 5211 days ago
What if your code gets "snuck out", and you don't know who did it. Should it still be free to copy and distribute at that point?
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icebraining 5211 days ago
Yes. The question is: if the code gets snuck out, do you really think IP laws will actually prevent people from distributing it?

Yeah, it's certainly working fine:

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7087027/Symantec_Norton_Anti...

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4149808/Windows_NT4_source_c...

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3497574/Windows_2000_source_...

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davidw 5211 days ago
"That which is not seen" is a great deal of other software that otherwise might be out there were there not laws against that sort of thing.
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icebraining 5211 days ago
I'd like to see some evidence of that, please.
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davidw 5211 days ago
Well, the links you pointed to are for fairly old versions of Windows, and they are on a pirate site, rather than any old site that chooses to host them in the US. Is Mac OS there in its entirety? How about Oracle? DB2 from IBM?
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icebraining 5211 days ago
So the fact that the source isn't there is proof that copyright prevented it? I may have a tiger repellent rock to sell you.

You need to provide evidence that the source of the Mac OS, Oracle or DB2 would be there if copyright didn't exist.

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