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Man arrested over theft of federal bank source code

...contract employee assigned to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The stolen code has been valued at $9.5m (£6.2m).Zhang allegedly admitted... Read more

19 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

IBM denies Unix theft charges

Big Blue has defended itself against allegations that it misappropriated Unix trade secrets, in its ongoing lawsuit with SCO Read more

2 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

SCO: Our code is in Linux

As part of SCO's lawsuit against IBM, the company is claiming that its UnixWare source code has been 'copied' into Linux Read more

2 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Police call code-breakers to crack Enigma riddle

Authorities turn to code breakers to help find stolen code machine Read more

13 September, 2000 by Will Knight

Behind SCO's open source challenge

...provide specific evidence of infraction. Quite the opposite: not only has no stolen code been revealed, but the company's claims of Unix IP ownership... Read more

10 October, 2006 by Leader

Microsoft's new Linux gambit

...business applications on Windows. But looping back to SCO's contention about stolen code, Microsoft surely will also focus on the benefits of a development... Read more

30 May, 2003 by Charles Cooper

Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy

A secret code allowing unlimited installations of Microsoft's upcoming server software has leaked onto the Internet Read more

8 April, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

XP makeover highlights antitrust tweaks

Microsoft is readying an update to Windows XP that will make it easier for PC makers and end-users to choose competitors' applications Read more

24 May, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Ex-Qualcomm man sentenced for trade secret theft

...s Brew. There is no suggestion Laude had used any of the stolen code at Nokia nor that the code had infiltrated the company. The... Read more

10 January, 2007 by Jo Best

Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy

Will anyone be forced to walk the plank? Read more

8 April, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

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