>The difference is that you can't claim open source code is a trade secret that contains algorithms that you can't reimplement in your own code. You can't use

>The difference is that you can't claim open source code is a trade secret that contains algorithms that you can't reimplement in your own code. You can't use "trade secret" but MS Windows code is also no longer secret, they shared the code with third parties and was also leaked, so they can claim you do not respect the license or TOS,NDAs etc. Not sure if "secret" has anything to do with this, proprietary stuff is not secret, it could be source availleble or be a scripting language stuff or something trivial to find the original implementation like C# and Java