A Canadian Developer of Software for Automated Coal Mining Equipment

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Essay

A Canadian developer of software for automated coal mining equipment has been approached by a Russian mining conglomerate with an offer to cooperate on adapting the software to the Russian market.If the Canadian company agreed to work with the Russian company,they would have to reveal the software's source code (the source code is the key to software and is used to protect proprietary technology).
If the Russian government does interfere with this business,identify and describe some of the future consequences of the Russian actions.

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