How to get rich fast
How to get rich fast? If you are living in a country like Vietnam where copyright law is just for fun and you know how to write software, it's rather easy:
- Purchase a source code to some commercial software components.
- Rename all namespaces, methods, properties, etc.
- Throw away the samples and write new ones.
- Compile, repackage and sell as your own work!
But what if someone finds a bug or needs to solve some complicated problem? Well, that's very easy to solve:
- Generate 10 fake names and get free e-mail accounts for them at Gmail, live.com or Yahoo.
- Send the complicated support request to the real vendor using one of these fake identities.
- When you get response, pretend you wrote it yourself and send it to your customer. Problem solved!
And to make it even more efficient:
- Pretend you are a US-based company. Get a virtual office.
- Pretend to have some additional seldom-used features no one really needs.
- Search various forums for links to the original vendor's products and add your own to save time.
- If someone asks you about the similarity, pretend there is not any or just ignore them.
- If you can no longer ignore them, pretend you outsourced all your development and support to China and didn't know about any infringement :-)
Does this sound too far-fetched? It sure does. But it's exactly what a company (?) called ComponentForge or Safabyte did! Check out the website about ComponentForge/Safebyte scam if you are interested in details.
