Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer
by pemulis on Friday February 17, 2012 @09:14AM
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I wonder if Teza even used the code Aleynikov took with him. If they didn't, would he even face civil penalties?
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Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer
by roel_v on Friday February 17, 2012 @09:29AM
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Punitive damages maybe, plus maybe contractual obligations on damages in case of breach. If they didn't use it, and if a civil case was purely based on damage caused (two big ifs), I don't think there would be much of a (civil) case, no, because there needs to be causality between the breach and the damages, which then there wouldn't be.