I am struggling with this and have rejoined TechRepublic just to ask this question.
I am the Technology Lead and a Director in my company.
We hired a software development company to build us an application specific to our industry with the intention of reselling it. Part of it would take over the tasks currently provided by a local software developers application that we purchased. I am not sure if this is ethical, but another Director here asked our developer to look at the local developers application and basically duplicate it. As far as I know no source code has been shared. Is this legal? Is it ethical? I feel like it is not ethical, but believe I am in the minority on this here and need to get my head straight on this.
Thank you for responding, I am really lost right now.