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Rashek writes:
"Alex Kibkalo, an ex-Microsoft employee was just arrested for stealing and leaking company secrets.
Having spent seven years working for Microsoft, Kibkalo is alleged to have leaked Windows 8 code to a French technology blogger in mid-2012, prior to the software's release. Kibkalo was apparently angry over a poor performance review."
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Real computer scientists don't comment their code. The identifiers are
so long they can't afford the disk space.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by higuita on Thursday March 20 2014, @04:55PM
In Europe, TOS, internal rules, contracts, etc can not overpower national laws, they automatically became invalid.
you can not sign a contract saying you want to be a slave or want to be tortured (but many companies try to do that)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Sir Garlon on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:01PM
The same is true in the US, it's just that the national laws are weaker.
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