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Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company

Posted by Unknown on from the awesome-business-plans dept.

coondoggie writes "Talk about starting a business on shaky ground. The Manhattan District Attorney's office says former Wall Street traders stole electronic trading source code and data from their then trading firm in an effort to start up their own financial business." Sending yourself pilfered code through your company email account is probably not the wisest plan.

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  1. Re:Wasn't that how Microsoft got started? by sconeu · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, he actually bought it... at bargain basement prices because he didn't tell Tim Paterson that he had IBM as a customer.

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