Thread: Ethics 101: To re-use or not to re-use?
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Re: Ethics 101: To re-use or not to re-use?
I write software for a living and I agree with Dave Flowerday. Having kids retype C source from season to season is not an effective use of their time. Software is fundamentally different from hardware and it should be treated as such. It should be an established team's right to leverage their accumulated experience by reusing designs from previous seasons. Since the effective manufacturing "cost" of software is zero, treat is as such and allow reuse.
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