Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news2.arglkargh.de!rt.uk.eu.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:15:45 -0600 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: "Borrowing" code Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <1848237.679.1329425962537.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbgq3> User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (Linux/3.0.0-16-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:15:45 -0600 Lines: 12 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-9a6O8lNxbZbU/rKGQf8LMuxP+Z2wOOIrHorY8nppul+Sf7uve5xwHZkkZqeDk96P4FNePvZQEqmNVOO!d5Icdy5WnUiYfdHseQnwTgRuVK0+yLp8946CHQOt8L9lB4IR5wbWlCQ6MuESqNskJ5hirORddXk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1556 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:12104 Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Anyway, there are much better reasons not to worry about copyright, even > in the frequent cases when it legally exists but is retarded. It's much > better - for several reasons - not to copy and paste. [SNIP] Three: example code are rarely production quality code. It will usually have sacrificed proper error handling and logging in favour of terseness and focus. -- Leif Roar Moldskred