Indian employee nicks Jolly Technologie source code

US SOFTWARE COMPANY Jolly Technologies has reported some of its source code, as well as "confidential design documents" has been stolen from its research and development centre in India. Apparently, the stolen goods were to do with one of Jolly Technologies' "key products." Thanks to the thievery, all development at the centre has been temporarily stopped.

Jolly Technologies reckons the code and documents were sneaked out of the centre by a recently-hired software engineer. Supposedly, she used a yahoo e-mail account to upload the documents and transport them out of the facility. The blokes at the R+D facility are currently trying hard to stop the source code from spreading.

Unfortunately for Jolly, a lack of tight intellectual property laws in India makes taking legal action against the employee almost impossible. However, the fellows from Jolly's San Carlos, California branch are talking to local Indian authorities and trying to sort something out. The Indian branch will not be employing or continuing research until the facility has been properly secured.

The company, which is a vendor of labelling and card software for the printing industry, established its R+D base in Mumbai just under three months ago. µ

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