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Now, another scary thought: what if someone stole the code and databases to your web-service? This exactly. It's easy for a community oriented around mostly a
by cynicalkane 15y ago
Now, another scary thought: what if someone stole the code and databases to your web-service?
This exactly.
It's easy for a community oriented around mostly around things like webapps, SaaS, enterprisey stuff to hop on the anti-IP bandwagon. It just so happens that there's no convenient ways of pirating their software.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoIt doesn't "just so happen". SaaS and web-apps arose deliberately on the marketplaces as a way of producing software that could not be pirated without actually getting past firewalls and cracking private servers.
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- CPlatypus 15y agoDo you seriously believe that's why developers went that route? I always thought web-apps arose because people thought the web was the best way to connect with their users, and SaaS because they felt that was the best way to keep costs down. In neither case does the protection of intellectual property enter the picture at all . . . but let's say, for the sake of argument, that that was a significant motivation. Would that be right? Would it refute the GP's point? I don't think so. It's still awfully easy to say that other people's code should be free. If anybody really is adopting these approaches to avoid having others "pirate" their code, I certainly hope they're not "pirating" or freeloading themselves.
- smsm42 15y agoNothing would happen if somebody stole their software. Exactly nothing. You think if you somehow copied Zuckerberg's hard disk in 2004, you'd have the billion-dollar business now? No, you'd have a pile of 8-year-old useless code. The code doesn't matter, the people building the company and writing that code to accomodate specific (and rapidly changing) needs matter.