"Keith M. Wheeler" wrote:
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> The first thing any corporation that wants to "enter the market" does is
> to reverse engineer the competition.  All the semiconductor manufacturers
> have equipment to sniff what's going on inside of packaged devices, hell,
> one of my professors made his living for a while at TI doing this.
>
> What blows me away is the strange "morality" everyone has:  it's ok for
> Megacorp Unlimited to do "research" but as soon as an individual does it
> it's theft.

Keith:
If I copy your code it is plagiarism or theft, but if I copy from
many sources then it becomes research.

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