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12-06-2008, 04:02 PM
Idzuna writes "With the somewhat recent announcement of Tabula Rasa shutting down, I have been thinking about what will happen to the Server/Client code. Does it get used as a guide for other projects? Does it get destroyed? Or does it just sit there on a hard drive somewhere in storage? The same question applies to many other failed creations. I know the likelihood of the code being distributed freely is next to nil, as most companies probably recycle code. If a vulnerability was found in old code, it could be applied to other products that the company has released. But wouldn't it help development of different projects if such a resource was available?"http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/12/06/1431227 (http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/06/1431227&from=rss)
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