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Original Post: hmm - shared source, open source
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I posted on this reverese engineering lawsuit earlier, and then came across this story in Linux Today. Combine the two together, and you end up handing MS (or any large company that gives source code access) an interesting weapon - any future open source efforts by developers who saw the shared source could be liable to suits given this precedent. It's an interesting potential issue; I wonder if corporate lawyers will try to use this.
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