Man charged with selling Windows source code
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Months after launching a federal investigation, authorities yesterday arrested a Connecticut man for selling the source code for Microsoft’s Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems over the Internet.
William P. Genovese, 27, of Meriden, Conn., is charged with unlawfully distributing a trade secret, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence upon conviction.
A Microsoft lawyer told The New York Times the arrest was significant, given the value of the proprietary code. “It is our secret recipe, our secret formula like the Coke formula,” said associate general counsel Tom Rubin.
