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Curioso wrote:

> How do we know if commercial software use some of the code from the open
> source community if they do not release their source?????

You never know. But usually you look for use of big chuncks of code. Example:
There are some features in gcc that aren't found in any other compiler, if
tomorrow Borland announces a new compiler that uses these techniques you can
start investigating ;-)

SET

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