Gizze
Seeing as you choose to not understand my very simply analogy above about "House Burglary", let me make it even simpler for you......

* Stealing an Unlocked Car is still Stealing........and Illegal

* Stealing Property from an Unlocked House is still Stealing.......and Illegal

* Copying and Distributing Unlocked Code......most especially code which make up Unique Selling Points of the original Product.......is still Illegal

And how much "worse" is it if any of the above Acts are performed by People you considered to be your Friends

Were Meridian stupid to leave the Code as open as they did??........YES

Does that detract from the Un-Ethical nature of what happened???

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