I know the GNU Project has for many years had guidelines in place stating that developers shouldn look at the Unix source code. Do you feel confident that those guidelines have been followed?
Stallman: Mostly. You can never be absolutely certain — and this is true whether you’re writing free software or non-free software. If you’ve hired people, how do you know whether your staff copied something they weren’t supposed to copy? You can’t just look at it and tell. So you tell them not to do it.
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