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It's not really stealing if Google still has the source code. Unless reading a book is now called "stealing a book".

Just like "stealing" company secrets isn't stealing? Are you implying that intellectual property can't be stolen?

Implying? No.

So, hypothetically speaking, you wouldn't mind if I broke into your house, duplicated every bit of data on your computer, and put everything not copyrighted by another company onto the internet for everyone to see?

The analogy is more accurate if you were to say that someone took a sample of your DNA and used it to create an army of yous.

How so? I didn't create my DNA. I did create a lot of the info on my hard drive, though. Including source code.

Nobody said I would or wouldn't mind this, I just said it's not stealing. It's "looking".

But anyway, feel free to go ahead with your plan. But it might be a waste of your time; the bits on my hard drive are already public: http://github.com/jrockway/.

(not trying to start a fight, just pointing out) note that my point implies all private communication as well. Cookies, email, chat transcripts.

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