Copy and Paste… The ethics of reverse engineering…

Filed Under (Back-end Development, Design & Development, Front-end Design) by Grant McMullin on May 22, 2009

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Having recently experienced the burn of plagiarism, I started thinking of the ethics of the Internet. And the question of ethics of in particular reverse engineering like SWF decompiling. There are many different programs that do this and I believe they really do have their place in the arsenal of any developer.

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Intellectual Property Laws vs. the Internet…

Filed Under (Google news, Industry news, Social Media) by Grant McMullin on February 26, 2009

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At the core of the Internet is the idea of a sharing of information. The principle that through the sharing of information and by increasing the accessibility and availability of this information that mankind can surpass its current knowledge base and further ourselves through the accelerated development of all spheres of humankind. More and more people are sharing their knowledge across the internet through means such as social media networks, blogging and forums.

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