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A tale of a copycat site

December 29th, 2004

Found on Slashdot, here is one developer’s tale of bringing down a copycat site. It is very hard to protect intellectual property on the net. While I think that open source is great, I also think that no viable business model for open source consumer desktop software has yet appeared. Until we can figure out a good model, we have to deal with IP violations.

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  1. January 7th, 2005 at 14:45 | #1

    no viable model? i can relate, but can you elaborate?

  1. January 7th, 2005 at 16:46 | #1