Some people argue that making this sort of program freely available encourages hacking, but I think that this is getting hold of the wrong end of the stick. In a hotel in Las Vegas, the programmers got up on stage and demonstrated their new product...
Microsoft zealously guards the source code to the various versions of its Windows operating system, sharing it only with universities and government agencies that sign agreements not to release the code.
Examples of the changes made to the Word document that later became SCO's lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler include the following: According to a study by market research firm Vanson Bourne titled "The Cost of Sharing," 90 per cent of documents in...
A Microsoft employee involved in coding the original version of Kazaa has launched a $25m legal action against Sharman Networks, claiming he never signed away his rights to the file-sharing program. Romanian developer Fabian Toader, who helped...
It was touted as an antipiracy measure, but the fine print says the only code that programmers and software firms would be able to distribute must have embedded copy-protection schemes approved by the federal government.
This led to the development of CollabNet, whose customers include commercial outfits such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard, Barclays, Motorola and the US Department of Defense as well as open-source players such as OpenOffice.org and the version control...