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rbanffy on March 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trinity - Distributed Graph Database from Microsof...

If they show you the code, you may get exposed to a lot of proprietary Microsoft IP and your work may be forever tainted by that.

Do you really want it?

BTW, that's why many companies won't allow their engineers to read patents from competitors.

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