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Since 2007 we have held an annual event that we call NANY (New Apps for the New Year), where we ask the coders who hang out on DonationCoder to create some new piece of free software and share it with the world on January 1st of the new year. NANY is really the funnest thing we do on this site, and it's one of the few times we can all play together. There are no winners or losers, it's simply a celebration of programming and creating new software and sharing it with the world.

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ACNP Software: Anti Cut and Past Software

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This product will help you determine whether others have copied sections of your code into their program. Believe it or not, people don't really tend to steal my code :)

...The modern software industry has a tradition of copying and pasting source code. This is the single most widely distributed method of producing less-than-perfect programs. Thousands of large and expensive projects contain literally millions of identical or nearly identical fragments of code costing millions of dollars per year for additional support and maintenance. Enter AntiCutAndPaste!

AntiCutAndPaste is designed to search for text fragments that have been copied and pasted in programming language source code or plain text. It is tested on sources from large C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Java, and C# projects. AntiCutAndPaste will yield surprising results not only with publicly available sources (samples) but also with your own projects (awards). AntiCutAndPaste takes little time to download and is fast and easy to use. Don't hesitate to try it...

http://www.anticutandpaste.com/

Note there is a free tool on their page which only compares documents you have locally (good for if you are a teacher and want to check for plaigarism amongst the submissions you have received), and a commercial tool which scours internet for duplicate content.

There are other free tools that do both - anyone remember what they are?
posted by KenR donate to KenR
discovered on http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld
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