22 February 2018

Should Google Act Faster to Remove Malicious Copycat Apps?


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Open source software is awesome. You have a choice of thousands of free applications, giving you a choice of how to support the developers. Some ask for a donation, others display an occasional advert, and so on. The important thing is that open source developers receive at least something in exchange for their work. There are downsides to open source development too. For instance, anyone can take your work, clone it, change subtle details, and republish as if their own. What happens in those instances? Can the original developer protect their work? Will the fraudulent “developer” suffer any consequence? Google,...

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