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Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by Nelson69 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:46PM (#22490777)
He's cashed in on this theft to the tune of "$50m-$100m" what would it take to constitute mallace?

Sure, he's not building war weapons or anything like that, but he stole the IP and he made an F* ton of money from it, specifically selling it to competitors. That seems like about the only malicious thing you could do with that IP, if you ask me. Being not malicious would be if it did that for free.

What are the odds that he ends up living kind of normal after this? Like living in the suburbs in a 2500sqft house and commuting to some job that pays $130k? I think close to nil.

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Re:Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google by zimpenfish on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:02AM (#22492050)
> commuting to some job

That'd be some interview. "Could you tell us about a time when you had to resolve a difficult issue? Say when you nicked IP from Google and had to pay $179M as restitution? And could you then explain why we should trust you within a hundred miles of our IP?"

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