No free lunch for software after all

Anne F Rutkowski; Michiel van Genugten; L. Hatton

doi:10.1109/MS.2017.3571570

No free lunch for software after all

Anne F Rutkowski, Michiel van Genugten, L. Hatton

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Abstract

Software's lack of reproduction costs provides benefits to not just legitimate developers but also people who want to use software for criminal purposes. The software community must address this issue or risk disenfranchising the users on whom the software industry depends.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13-15
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	34
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2017.3571570
Publication status	Published - Sept 2017

Keywords

software development
computer bugs
law
computer crime
software engineering
general data protection regulation

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