Totally off-topic
Aren't you automatically assuming Open Source means GPL or BSD license included? Open Source means The code for the programme is open - you can read it from start to finish. It does not imply anything else.
Now you automatically have copyright of that code you wrote. Anyone can steal the code (but stealing is ILLEGAL).
If the code is given out, then you can use it in terms of the license (if any) issued with it.
If you can read the code does not mean you have the right to edit, change, improve, remove or in any way alter that code - unless the license gives you that right - but you could, and that means if company X stops trading you can still use the code for whatever it was you were doing, and update it yourself.
To steal code would backfire, because people should insist all program code they use is open. That way people can see the code in all software, and eventually someone would see the stolen code, and realise that either that program stole the code, or the other program they saw stole the code, hence someone would get prosecuted for license or copyright infringement, and people like us would be so incensed that that company would loose sales as a result. The old addage if you can't do the time don't do the crime applies here.
On-topic
I'd piss on their mains transformer, causing huge power spikes that would destroy the hard drives. When they realise the expense of replacing them and getting their files back under windows they'll change to Linux.
I would suggest the ashes head towards a nice Kerr-Newman Singularity, whereby they can be crushed and rebuilt into raw material to become something useful to the next universe.
[ August 02, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
