Our corporate policy prohibits the reading of open source code (that
isn't ours), because that avoids the possibility of introducing IP
taint into our commercial products**.
Oh my.
When the world's largest software production company's programmers are
legally forbidden to learn from the publicly available works of the
world's largest community of programmers, then something is fundamentally
wrong with the law.
(And it finally explains why the Windows NT kernel happily re-enacted
decades worth of historical Unix bugs.)
Sorry for the diversion. I was struck by the irony of some commercial
software producer's lobbying against the quality of their own products.
