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I think this is a fantastic idea, but aren't you worried that someone will take your source code, launch a clone, market it well and make a billion trillion dol
by aditya 18y ago
I think this is a fantastic idea, but aren't you worried that someone will take your source code, launch a clone, market it well and make a billion trillion dollars?
- witten 18y agoI suppose it's possible, but pretty unlikely. But let's say it does happen. I'm still the foremost expert in the world on this particular piece of software. Chances are I can develop it faster and better than anyone else. (This isn't to say that I'm a really good coder -- I'm not. It's just that I wrote this software and understand it very well.) Now, you brought up marketing, so I suppose in this hypothetical example, someone could clone the product, rename it, and just concentrate on marketing rather than development. Well guess what.. Anyone can do that anyway even without the source code! Most web-based software is fairly easy to clone. Having the source code just makes that a little easier.
- omouse 18y agoI would hope so. Then you don't have to work on the project anymore and you can move on to something else. OR you could take their source code and modify it and make it even better!