perhaps outsourcing needs a closer look by some companies;;

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

August 05, IDG News Service - Source code stolen from U.S. software
company in India. Jolly Technologies, a division of U.S. company Jolly
Inc., reported Wednesday, August 4, that an insider at its research and
development center in Mumbai, India, stole portions of the source code and
confidential design documents relating to one of its key products. As a
result, the company has halted all development at the center. A recently
hired software engineer used her Yahoo e-mail account to upload and ship
the copied files out of the research facility. Most U.S.-based software
companies require their employees to sign an employment agreement that
prohibits them from carrying the company's source code out of a
development facility or transferring it in any way.


Though the Indian branch of Jolly Technologies requires employees to sign
a similar employment agreement, the sluggish Indian legal system and the
absence of intellectual property laws make it nearly impossible to
enforce such agreements, the company said.
Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0
,10801,95045,00.html

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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