On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 9:04 PM George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:

> As long as you do it in the USA, it isn't stealing.
>

Not sure of that, but there are other techniques to protect it, like
patent, trademark, and trade secret.  Just like unpublished proprietary
source code of AT&T, to coin a phrase.

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