Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case

merlyn writes "The Oregon Supreme Court declined to hear my case, leaving standing the unfavorable decision of the Oregon Appeals Court as the final authority on this eight-year-long case, well known to many sysadmin and Perl hacker alike. Details at my fors-announce posting." If you're not sure what that means, you probably want to read at least this site which offers a straightforwardly partisan look at the complicated case of Intel vs. Schwartz as well as Schwartz's own page; it's a strange world where programmers and sysadmins can be convicted for seemingly innocent activities.

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The Moral of the Story is..

[jcr]

..don't work for Intel.

Eventually, Intel will have to settle for sysops of much less ability than Randall Schwartz, and they'll be owned by every J. Random script kiddie in the world.

Then, when they go forth into the job market trying to find someone who will do what a decent sysadmin should do (like, say, run crack against their passwords files and alert people with lame PW's like "pre$ident"), they'll hear "gee, I'd like to take your money and help you guys, but it's just too dangerous."

-jcr