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Re:Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Progra... by kaonashi on Friday August 02, 2013 @07:38PM (#6150330)
What does it mean exactly to 'take proprietary code'? You mean he had a copy on his laptop so he could work from home? Isn't that what most of us do?
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Re:Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Progra... by craigching on Saturday August 03, 2013 @12:34PM (#6152532)
Was it a personal laptop or a GS owned laptop? I don't want to defend GS and I think the criminal charges are overboard (and I don't understand how they think it's ok, hopefully it hurts their ability to recruit), but generally when you work for a company it is NOT ok to put company assets on personal machines.

Every company has its own policy, but I would bet GS wasn't cool with putting their code on personal machines.

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