For the average computer user, it's easy to overlook the fact that giant corporations own the rights to the source code that makes the machine perform even the simplest task.
Dell, the company that's perhaps best known for it's line of colorful, college student-friendly laptops, is getting into the cyber security business with its fairly sizable purchase of SonicWALL, Inc.
The world wonders what the biggest PC maker will do in a post-PC world
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