VMWare 'Hack' Plan Just 'Engineering Lingo,' Jury Hears

By Cara Bayles ( June 6, 2017, 9:24 PM EDT) -- A VMWare lead software engineer took the stand in a California federal courtroom Tuesday to kick off the company's defense of Phoenix Technology's $110 million patent infringement suit, saying another employee was using "engineering lingo," not plotting wrongdoing, when he emailed about plans to "hack" Phoenix's source code....

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