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Gorbachev Asks Gates to Intervene in Piracy Case

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bit-exteme dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has asked Bill Gates to intervene in a software piracy case against the headmaster of a middle school. If convicted, Alexander Ponosov could face detention in a Siberian prison camp for his crime.

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  1. Re:do the crime, do the time? by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes but a teacher's degree is considerably easier to get than an electrical engineering or hard science computer science degree.

    It's rather ironic that multiple replys to my offtopic parent post were modded up.

    But it is slashdot moderation at it's finest.

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