A competitor obtains this source to attempt to use it to their advantage in some way.
The many Mac developers we’ve met over the years are fine, upstanding people. I can’t imagine any of them being this unethical, or even being willing to take the risk of us finding fingerprints of our code in theirs. And let’s not forget that — you guessed it — there’s a good chance any stolen source could have malware slipped into it.
One has to think of that IF a competitor needs to steal source code from another company then it means that they lack skilled developers and that competition will not even be able to understand the code it stole. That company will fail in 6 months after they copied the code because they will pile up so many bugs.
In software development you can't cheat. You can copy someones code but you must always integrated and adapt it to your needs. I regularly inherit other peoples projects and I am amazed how many frameworks they piled on top if each other making the code near impossible to fix. And then you discover why it took a complete team years to keep that code running. The frameworks slowed them down.
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1 u/roznak 17 May 2017 20:31
One has to think of that IF a competitor needs to steal source code from another company then it means that they lack skilled developers and that competition will not even be able to understand the code it stole. That company will fail in 6 months after they copied the code because they will pile up so many bugs.
In software development you can't cheat. You can copy someones code but you must always integrated and adapt it to your needs. I regularly inherit other peoples projects and I am amazed how many frameworks they piled on top if each other making the code near impossible to fix. And then you discover why it took a complete team years to keep that code running. The frameworks slowed them down.