Source Code Sharing
Discussions center on the risks, benefits, and debates around sharing proprietary source code with companies or open-sourcing it, including fears of IP theft, trust issues, and obligations to make code public.
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Then they can give the source code out to anyone...
Don't open source your code then.
What guarantee is there you wouldn't just take the code for yourself?
I wish he would put the code out on github, does tht break laws if its not actively doing it?
you are missing "... and not share the source code ..." in your question, which is clearly the context here.
Yes? What do they have to gain from the code not being public?
Presumably this company is happy for you to take their codebase and walk your next potential employer through it. Probably their competition.
Marketed with "Trust our code" , but doesn't share it?
I find it odd to give a company access to my source code. Why would I do that? It's not like they should be trusted more than necessary.
you don't always have access to that. people can copy the code without copying the repository.