Ethical Legal Environment Of China's Software Industry Research

As the core of information technology, the software industry is paid on much higher attention by countries all over the world. The international competitiveness of a country is concerned with the development of software industry. It has been around 20 years since the software industry activated in the middle of 1980s in China, and now it is just on the threshold of a new phase. Sound external environment is necessary to develop software industry. This article urges the construction of the legal and moral environment while reveals the legal and moral issues mirrored by software infringement.This article make the history of the software development clear by quantitative study and qualitative analysis (the latter is mainly used) thorough the investigation about individuals and enterprises and the reference to considerable datum, hence some new ideas about the attribute of the software. Meanwhile, it describes the infringement phenomenon in the software development together with its harmfulness, suggests that the external environment such as law and morality be strengthened in the software development.In the first place, the construction of legal environment Nthe 'hard' environment in software development is supposed to put on agenda. In response to this issue, the analysis of legal construction home and abroad, the proposal of laying emphasis on orderly competitive system, the requirement of self-disciplined mechanism in internet age , the shocking of free software against the contemporary legal system and the solutions to resolve it ,the protection for the legitimate rights and interests of software enterprises, and smooth pools for software's sale and circulation are touched. Secondly, the constructions of moral environment in the software development-the 'soft 'environment, ought to be fortified. In this part ,the new relationship between law and morality in the information society , the moral basis which is necessary to the software industry development, the ample study about the construction of legal and moral environment ,and the moral construction of enterprises that must be taken into account are pointed out. At the same time, other questions can not be ignored are simply touched.