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Re: Perl Co-inventor Convicted
In article <3vj0pp$h9c@pith.uoregon.edu> bmoore@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Zump) writes:
>Of course, the proper analogy for Randal's actions is that he was a burglar
>alarm installer caught checking the door locks at a clients site.
More like a burglar alarm installer installing an alarm in Building
A, going to check the locks in Building B, owned and operated by a different
division. If I owned and operated Building B, he would be in big trouble
real quick too, I would respond almost exactly as Intel has.
Not terribly relevant. Randal's own remarks on the subject admit
more or less freely to being a putz, and his real mistake was in not
realizing how Intel felt about putzes doing stupid things. Corporations
feel much more strongly about these things than academic facilities.
It is a genuine shame, and he has my sympathies, that he has to learn
this lesson in such a forceful manner.
60 grand, by the way, is nothing. It's half an engineering year
most places, less in (say) california. It's pretty clear from the traffic in
this group that many people here haven't got the foggiest idea what things
really cost. Shoot, many of these posters probably think gcc is free.
Andrew, not speaking for NSC or STK or anyone else.
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