A few years back I worked for a software company that wrote mostly Windows specific network application software.
Well, I know for a fact that they would just take most of the MIT X server code and incorporate it into their X Server product (To be honest, I don't know how/why/etc. they did this because I wasn't in that software group and I really didn't care at the time). But their DNS server was definitely almost entire BSD code...file for file...except for the source files that implemented the UI and the Windows Service interfaces. There were probably a few more applications that had this crap in it too but those were the only ones I saw for sure during my tenure with them.
Nobody ever said or asked anything about their practices as far as I know so unless you go out and actively look for things that might be yours not too many people are going to care to look for this. It really sucks since you put in all the effort and then some schmuck that runs a sweat shop programming company makes money off of you. If anything, that's what would burn me about it happening.
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Granted that Microsloth could make it more difficult to setup a site without proper security in place but it is still ultimately the fault of the site operators that such a hole exists. It's also their responsbility to make sure they are operating on the latest patches of the OS and their applications that deal with security in any way.
In any other industry the companies could easily be sued for negligence because it is their responsbility to insure the that user security is taken car eof. You can't just say later, "we didn't know!"...it doesn't work that way in the real world. But oh yeah, this is the Internet, not the real world.
Oh come on, most software/hardware developers do not come from India. That's pretty far fetched to say. There is a significant number but very few end up in high profile jobs (relative to the number of non-indians/pakistanis that hold these types of jobs).
And just because the software is cheap and shipping is less doesn't make it more likely for them to have better computers. You don't take into account that their buying power is much lower than ours because they have all sorts of import duties on computer parts in those countries.
Here's a question you're not asking, though, How much of India or Pakistan would be affected by a "cyberwar". Although there are pockets within the country that are affluent and have a lot of modern things, the fact is that most of the country still lives a very simple existance. I would venture to say that a cyberwar would have very little affect on a country with such limited reliance on a telecommunications infrastructure.
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A few years back I worked for a software company that wrote mostly Windows specific network application software.
Well, I know for a fact that they would just take most of the MIT X server code and incorporate it into their X Server product (To be honest, I don't know how/why/etc. they did this because I wasn't in that software group and I really didn't care at the time). But their DNS server was definitely almost entire BSD code...file for file...except for the source files that implemented the UI and the Windows Service interfaces. There were probably a few more applications that had this crap in it too but those were the only ones I saw for sure during my tenure with them.
Nobody ever said or asked anything about their practices as far as I know so unless you go out and actively look for things that might be yours not too many people are going to care to look for this. It really sucks since you put in all the effort and then some schmuck that runs a sweat shop programming company makes money off of you. If anything, that's what would burn me about it happening.
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"All I ask is for a chance to prove that money doesn't make me happy."
Granted that Microsloth could make it more difficult to setup a site without proper security in place but it is still ultimately the fault of the site operators that such a hole exists. It's also their responsbility to make sure they are operating on the latest patches of the OS and their applications that deal with security in any way.
In any other industry the companies could easily be sued for negligence because it is their responsbility to insure the that user security is taken car eof. You can't just say later, "we didn't know!"...it doesn't work that way in the real world. But oh yeah, this is the Internet, not the real world.
Oh come on, most software/hardware developers do not come from India. That's pretty far fetched to say. There is a significant number but very few end up in high profile jobs (relative to the number of non-indians/pakistanis that hold these types of jobs).
And just because the software is cheap and shipping is less doesn't make it more likely for them to have better computers. You don't take into account that their buying power is much lower than ours because they have all sorts of import duties on computer parts in those countries.
Here's a question you're not asking, though, How much of India or Pakistan would be affected by a "cyberwar". Although there are pockets within the country that are affluent and have a lot of modern things, the fact is that most of the country still lives a very simple existance. I would venture to say that a cyberwar would have very little affect on a country with such limited reliance on a telecommunications infrastructure.
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