The International Herald Tribune reports on when open source code is costly:
Shawn Henry, a software engineer, swivels around in his chair, squints at his computer screen and punches up a long list of software code files that document his company's latest headache.
These are files for a coming release from Service Integrity, a company based in Newton, Massachusetts, selling software that helps businesses mine their data for customer leads. Each file highlighted in a bright color represents a match with known "open-source" code covered by a license. And each match represents a potential problem that Service Integrity must resolve.
Similar scenes are playing out at many U.S. software companies and other businesses as engineers frantically search their files for something they hope not to find: open-source components.
