> One last point. There is no market for stolen code. If I stole Google's search algorithm, who would I sell it to? Microsoft would not buy it because that wou

> One last point. There is no market for stolen code. If I stole Google's search algorithm, who would I sell it to? Microsoft would not buy it because that would be illegal on their part as well. However, if I can reverse engineer Google's code, I can put myself at the top of the search rankings. Sell that, rather than selling the code.