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Re: PERL CO-INVENTOR CONV



> Look, the only kind of property Intel has is their designs, all of 
> which are kept in memory someplace.  Seems to me Randal is in the 
> embarassing situation of the guy who gets caught at midnight taking a 
> blowtorch to the safe at the bank, and pleads he was checking to see 
> if the metal would melt.

Your analogy is incorrect in a number of places, such as:

 o Randal is employed by the bank.
 o His job is to fix vaults.
 o His superiors obviously don't know too much  about vaults
   in the first place.
 o The vaults the bank is using has a master key which allow
   access to the entire vault, and several  minor keys which
   are supposed to  allow access only to specific parts of the 
   vault.
 o The bank gives Randal  keys to a number of vaults. 
   He needs them to do his work.
 o In one of the vaults he has access to them he finds a key
   to one small box inside a vault he usually doesn't have 
   access to.
 o He uses it, and lo and behold, inside the small box
   he finds a bunch of copies of other keys, perhaps even
   a copy of the the master-key for the entire vault, we 
   really don't know.
 o He tells the bank what he did and tells them to be
   more careful about where they put copies their  keys.
 o He is fired, charged with illegal access to a vault, loses the
   trial, has to go to jail, has to pay the bank damages.
 o Several (perhaps most) leading vault-fixers in the world
   seems to agree that what  Randal did was only good 
   vault-fixer practice.
 o At no time did he use a blowtorch.
 o The bank will probably have a problem or two finding competent
   vault-fixers in the future.
 o etc.

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