__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Thursday 25 January 2007 18:43 \__
> on Jan 24 2007 19:40:10 +0000 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> "A dispute between two software houses remains unresolved after the
> Court of Appeal refused to rule that one company definitely did not
> copy the other's software. The ruling does not mean that copying did
> take place, though"
>
> "Point Solutions was commissioned by Focus Business Solutions to do
> some outsourced contracting work on Focus's market leading software"
>
> "Point began to develop its own competing software, called Acuo. When
> Point began to win work for which Focus was also bidding, that company
> asked for the return of the copies of its software"
>
> "The dispute rested on the fact that Point had had access to Focus's
> source code in the course of its contract work and was able to see how
> the software was put together"
>
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/25/software_company_fails_to_prove_it_wrote_its_own_software/
Yeah, seen that earlier. Quick "find as you type" with "open" and "linux"
matched nothing so I alt+W'ed it.
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