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Are you aware that plagiarism is a crime? Hence, without being convicted nobody is a plagiarist. It's like saying: are programmers burglars? Well, have they be

• jacquesm 17y ago
  Having been convicted for burglary and having committed burglary are two distinct things. It is possible to be -wrongfully- convicted of burglary without ever having done a burglary, it is possible to be rightfully convicted when you've done it and you can 'get away with it' if you have done it but you have not been convicted.
• neuromanta 17y ago
  Don't talk like a lawyer. That's exactly what these companies/businessmen do too. They just look at open source as a free way to make money, they don't see the community behind it. That's the way it is. We, who develop open source software in our free time, shouldn't think about this... we don't do it for money. If someone makes money using my free software, it's fine by me. My good conscience worth more than money.