A group of young college students developed a paradigm-shifting pattern recognition application that also had huge military application. Someone put the source code on an Internet facing computer, and just when they were ready to launch the product, a copyright search discovered big parts of the source code on the internet.
Lesson: Don't expose your source code to outside world.
There is some secret political stuff we are doing :)
Ever read Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez?
A group of young college students developed a paradigm-shifting pattern recognition application that also had huge military application. Someone put the source code on an Internet facing computer, and just when they were ready to launch the product, a copyright search discovered big parts of the source code on the internet.
Lesson: Don't expose your source code to outside world.
Agreed!!!
Are you in the app dev business to?
No, but I am drawing a retirement check from a once great big blue company, and am current application consulting.
Cool!