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Most commercial software that I've used has the model of a legal moat around a pretty crappy database schema.

The non IP protection has largely been in the effort involved in replicating an application's behavior and that effort is dropping precipitously.



You must not have used much commercial software outside of crappy business SaaS.


Truth




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