Source code theft emerges as a growing threat to Nepal’s software industry

Companies say former employees and insiders are walking away with proprietary code and turning it into rival products. Legal remedies remain slow, limited, and companies often suffer heavy losses before cases are resolved.

Every software application people use is built through years of engineering effort and significant financial investment. But when the source code, the underlying codebase that forms the backbone of a software product, is stolen, copied and repackaged under a different name, software companies can lose both their competitive edge and their business.