A Thought about Proprietary Software
I can only see one reason that proprietary software companies, like Microsoft, Adobe, Corel and Autodesk do not release the source code for their products. Nope, it’s not as they say, to protect their intellectual property, it’s because they must have something to hide. After all, if they didn’t have anything to hide, like MALWARE embedded into their product(s) they would release the source code.
The recent Court decision supporting the claim of the busybox developers against a proprietary software company shows that intellectual proprty is protected when the software in question is open source kind of ruins the claim that keeping it proprietary is to protect intellectual property.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/31/monsoon-settles-busybox
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/oct/30/busybox-monsoon-settlement/