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Re: Randal Schwartz's conviction (was open house)

In article <3vjnpc$op5@kelly.teleport.com>,
Jason Downs <downsj@teleport.com> wrote:
>In article <uk7n4yretl.fsf@linda.teleport.com>,
>Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>]
>]Come meet a convicted felon!  The first person to be convicted under
>]the Oregon Computer Crime Act of 1985!
>
>Sounds like a good reason not to go.
>
>](No, I won't be there the whole time, but I intend on stopping by. :-)
>]
>]For details about my conviction, send email to fund@stonehenge.com.
>
>People like you make life harder for everyone else in the industry.
>Not to mention the fact that tramping around other people's computers
>is simply immoral (or, other departments where you have no right to be,
>as the case may be).
>

Actually, people like him make life easier for lots and lots of
people.  Randal generously donates his expert time and advice to
hundreds if not thousands of total strangers all over the world, time
for which he could easily charge $100-200 an hour.

If you want to get into the details of Randal's conviction, you might
want to note that those computers he was "tramping" on were the same
computers that he was administering a year previous.  

Indeed, you might want to learn all the facts of this case before you
post such a strong condemnation.

You know, many of us are still mystified as to why Intel decided to
prosecute this case at all.  At worst, Randal was guilty of bad
judgement and flouting vague corporate policy, something most of us in
the computer industry have done at least once.

   Sonia Lyris & Devin Ben-Hur




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