CIO: Dirty Code, Licenses and Open Source

“Karen Copenhaver, a partner at law firm Choate, Hall &
Stewart, tells a story about running a seminar for a large company.
The goal of the seminar was to make it clear that software
developers had a responsibility to abide by their company’s
guidelines surrounding the use of open-source, free and other
third-party code.

“Copenhaver thought it went well. Then the development group’s
manager came up to her and said, ‘You know, these fellows can’t get
everything they need to get done every day and worry about all of
this stuff…'”

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