Timeline for Are there concrete reasons not to use libraries and code snippets heavily?
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| Mar 27, 2013 at 19:13 | comment | added | Darius X. | If the licence allows it, why would it not be ethical? If you are trying to get a job done, and one wheel has already been invented and made available to you for free, it would wrong (i.e. unethical) for you to waste a minute of your time re-inventing it. If you need to learn how to reinvent a wheel, that's completely different. | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 18:32 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @Arman: Try asking him. | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 18:32 | comment | added | Arman | I wonder if "copying and pasting" a hundred lines of code made by my generous fellow programmer is still ethical. | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 18:18 | history | answered | Mason Wheeler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |