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SolidWorks Code Theft Thwarted
8/29/2002 - Times of India
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- Evan Yares
Vice-President, Chief Technology Officer
Cyon Research
September 11, 2002, 10:40:49 PM -
Here's my perspective: In my position as president of the OpenDWG Alliance, I develop software in Russia. I'm concerned that, if someone there decided to misappropriate our software and sell it, I'd get no action at all out of the Russian government. (Here's an amusing fact: Our Russian team also develops a well-known CAD program for a US based company. The programmers can go downstairs, in their own building, and buy a pirated version of this CAD software, made from the US disks, for about $3.)
SolidWorks is fortunate that the Indian government was responsive. GSSL was fortunate too -- because this episode illustrates that they are a "safe bet" for providing software services. As for the person who thought it would be a good idea to abscond with SolidWorks' source code -- I'm kind of curious who he thought might be interested in buying it? None of SolidWorks' competitors would come anywhere near it. Some might be curious, in a voyeuristic way, but that's about all. And anyone who is interested in pirating SolidWorks doesn't need the source code to do it.
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- Dr. Joel Orr
Vice-President, Chief Visionary
Cyon Research
August 30, 2002, 7:38:16 PM -
Stealing and selling SolidWorks' source code is unquestionably wrong. I was, however, very moved by the comments on the article from Indian IT professionals. Some were concerned about being tarred with the same brush; some were worried about the reputation of IIT, a top institution with a world-wide reputation. But many asked readers to think about the man, and what might have brought him to the position of doing such a thing. One commenter had been a classmate of his.
This level of concern for the overall morality of the situation is commendable, and bodes well for this generation of Indian professionals. I suspect that if an MIT student had been similarly accused in Cambridge, it would not have made the local newspaper, much less a national one--and if it had, the general reaction would have been a shrug.
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Dr. Joel Orr
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