Randal Schwartz is a software programmer best known for his wildley popular O'Reilly books on the Perl programming language. Quite a few people, myself included, started their computer lives with a copy of Randal's classic, Learning Perl. He's also a friend of Steve's so I hope to be able to meet him some day. In any case, he was also involved in some serious legal problems with Intel in 1995. He didn't do very well. But the court of appeals has finally ruled on his appeal, and although the three convictions against him were basically upheld, he's not going to have to pay Intel the $70,000 restitution award. Slashdot has the story and a bunch of links. Pretty interesting case.
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- jim 4-08-2001 1:17 am