Doug: > This guy stole proprietary code (and I'm no lawyer, but trading algorithms > must be protected under IP law, no?) from someone far more rich and > powerful than he. That's what makes it a crime.
Dear Doug, You and I have exchanged many disagreeing e-mails since 2001, if not earlier, and it is unfortunate that we are still disagreeing, although we occasionally agree on some things. Serge in not a criminal at all: what may make him a criminal are these silly IP laws, so maybe we are agreeing? If I wrote a piece of code that does something that may be useful to the others, why is it mine? More importantly, what difference does it make if I write it at home or under the roof of a corporation? Is it because I would not have known what I had been working on if I worked on it elsewhere when I wrote the code? How about this: Even if I did not know what was going on, if I had not been in that environment, could have I not been able to offer a solution to such a problem at home when I was presented with the problem? And what happens if I was given the code to take home to improve upon it? Say, I upload the code to some Jamaican website with ample space so that it offers a convenience for my downloading at home! Best, Sabri _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
