<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Indeed a promising development for Serge!</div><div><br></div><div>I think this was a bit extraordinary:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">On February 16, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral argument on his appeal and, later that same day, ordered his conviction reversed and a judgment of acquittal entered, with opinion to follow.</span></div><div><br></div><div>The same day, after hearing oral arguments? This has been going on since 2009!</div><div><br></div><div>More info on the original conviction here:</div><div><a href="http://tsi.brooklaw.edu/cases/united-states-v-aleynikov/reports/case-report-united-states-v-aleynikov">http://tsi.brooklaw.edu/cases/united-states-v-aleynikov/reports/case-report-united-states-v-aleynikov</a></div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); display: inline !important; float: none; ">At best, the Aleynikov case looks like an attempt by federal prosecutors and the courts to set a strong example that this sort of conduct will not be tolerated. "</span></div><div><br></div><div>And more info on the acquittal here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/ex-goldman-programmer-s-conviction-overturned-on-appeal?category=/">http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/ex-goldman-programmer-s-conviction-overturned-on-appeal?category=%2F</a></div><div><br></div><div>Interestingly, inflation has expanded the amount of code copied from "thousands of lines of code" to "hundreds of thousand lines".</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><br><div><div>On 17 Feb 2012, at 14:35, Matthias Lang wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Offtopic, but Serge used to contribute to erlang-questions quite a bit:<br><br> <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/court-overturns-conviction-of-ex-goldman-programmer/">http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/court-overturns-conviction-of-ex-goldman-programmer/</a><br> <a href="http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/f247ec41-8374-4be3-a2af-2cfad0631f49/1/doc/11-1126_2.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/f247ec41-8374-4be3-a2af-2cfad0631f49/1/hilite/aleynikov/">http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/f247ec41-8374-4be3-a2af-2cfad0631f49/1/doc/11-1126_2.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/f247ec41-8374-4be3-a2af-2cfad0631f49/1/hilite/aleynikov/</a><br><br>I have no idea what actually happened, I don't know Serge and I know<br>basically nothing about legal systems, though I've watched a few<br>episodes of Rumpole.<br><br>Matt<br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>