[free-sklyarov] Plea Bargin for Dima?!?

[Don Marti]

begin Jeanne A. E. DeVoto quotation of Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:28:51PM -0700:

> For those who are in touch with pressoids, organizing events, putting up
> web pages, or otherwise doing large-scale publicity, the attitude to take
> is not "the Feds let Dmitri off in their mercy" - which is undoubtedly how
> the FBI and Adobe will attempt to spin any plea bargain - but "the Feds
> realized they had no act any informed jury would convict someone for, they
> saw the outrage on the part of the programmer community, therefore they
> engaged in a face-saving maneuver".

That's an excellent way to put it.  

Also "Any company that tries this kind of thing in future is going
to face customer and employee rage."

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