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What if you steal code from non Microsoft company?
« on: January 28, 2006, 07:20:02 pm »
JAN. 27 9:30 P.M. ET A Connecticut man known on the Internet as "illwill" was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for stealing the source code to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating software, among the company's most prized products.

William Genovese Jr., 29, of Meriden, Conn., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley, who called Genovese "a predator who has morphed through various phases of criminal activity in the last few years."

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What if you steal code from other company?  Are you going to end up spending a couple of years in jail still?