UCLA Shooter Accused Victim Of Stealing His Computer Code

The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor on Wednesday has been identified as Mainak Sarkar, said Los Angeles police. Sarkar, a former doctoral student accused the vicitim William Klug, 39, of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else. According to reports, Sarkar used a 9mm semiautomatic pistol to shoot the professor, and then turned the gun on himself. A March 10 blog post by Sarkar, now archived reads: William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor. He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy. [...] My name is Mainak Sarkar. I was this guy's PhD student. We had personal differences. He cleverly stole all my code and gave it another student. He made me really sick. Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust.

Comments

He inserted spaces for tabs

[BenJeremy]

Klug's real crime was that he changed all the tabs in the code to spaces before handing the code to another student.

Some developers really do not like that sort of thing.

Re:Oh boy! Look at the media again...

[theArtificial]

Maybe the Huffington post editorial staff can spin it?

Re:Wow, a page from the Valery Fabrikant

[U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M]

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