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Yandex might be the most popular search engine in Russia, but also they're by far the most popular logistics company for private people here. They do deliveries
by tazjin 4y ago
Yandex might be the most popular search engine in Russia, but also they're by far the most popular logistics company for private people here. They do deliveries (food, groceries, other goods), taxis, moving vans and so on - all strongly Yandex branded. If you walk around the streets of Russia's big cities, their brand is absolutely omnipresent (and also in some former Soviet countries, like Armenia).
Eating into their business would require much more than source code, but of course an analysis of the code could lead to finding more security issues.
> potentially a boon for open-source development?
That'd be an absolute copyright/licensing nightmare, just because the code was stolen and published doesn't mean it is now "open-source".
- teetertater 4y agoIn Russia the copyright rules are more relaxed though. As long as you stay small nobody will enforce it
- vbezhenar 4y agoIs it different in other countries? Who checks that local pizzeria uses genuine Windows?
- mschuster91 4y agoWindows? No one unless disgruntled ex-employees blow a whistle. Other stuff like pirated pay-tv streams though? These absolutely have agents on the streets scouting out bars and pubs to check if they're paying customers and if they are actually using an (expensive) commercial license or if they are mis-using a residential one.
- kortilla 4y agoMicrosoft.
- iavael 4y agoNo, they are not. Laws are about the same.
- teetertater 4y agoIt’s all about enforcement though. In North America you can’t walk into walmart and buy a pirated AAA game title with keygen and mods preinstalled on the disk
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoPart of me is seeing someone with GPT prompt asking for a 'rewrite'. We truly live in interesting times. For the record, I don't disagree with you on the licensing/copyright front.
- notpushkin 4y agoI think a “clean room” reimplementation should be doable here. I. e. one person writes the specs based on the code, another one writes the code back from the specs.