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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!fuller
  2. From: fuller@athena.cs.uga.edu (James P. H. Fuller)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
  4. Subject: Re: More surveys. Protecting software development from programmers
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug16.141216.6614@athena.cs.uga.edu>
  6. Date: 16 Aug 92 14:12:16 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: athena.1992Aug16.141216.6614
  8. References: <1992Aug16.010730.29295@umbc3.umbc.edu>
  9. Followup-To: alt.flame
  10. Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
  11. Lines: 15
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug16.010730.29295@umbc3.umbc.edu> themos@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Themos Pentakalos; ADMIN-COMP) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Currently, there are companies in the US which are making use of
  16. >programmers abroad (Russia, etc.) for software development at
  17. >low man hour costs. How can these companies protect their software
  18. >from getting stollen by the programmers themselves and getting sold
  19. >to other companies?
  20. >
  21. >The big question is that the American companies have no way of using
  22. >US law to protect them outside the US.
  23.  
  24.      Ho, ho, ho.  How can they exploit others without, themselves, being
  25. exploited in turn?  If I knew of a method you can be sure I'd keep it a
  26. deep dark secret.
  27.                                             -- jf
  28.