Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/06/2015 10:19 -0400
In a victory for open source software and more importantly, for common sense, a judge has thrown out the charges against Sergey Aleynikov, the ex-Goldmanite of Flash Boys fame who was tragically thrown in front of a kangaroo court after ‘stealing’ some open source code on his way out the door at 200 Wall.
- FLASH BOYS’ PROGRAMMER IN GOLDMAN THEFT HAS CHARGES TOSSED OUT
As a reminder, the ‘theft’ was essentially inconsequential and amounted to what Michael Lewis likened to the programmer equivalent of someone taking their notebook with them after their last day on the job.
Nevertheless, Aleynikov was arrested and tried by a court that hadn’t the faintest conception of HFT or of programming in general.
“Judge Dismisses Charges Against Sergey Aleynikov”
The poor patsy has already served his usefulness, to wit;
A) Present his prosecution propagandistically as an example of the Obama regime’s willingness to “crack down on Wall St fraud!”
B) Send a subtly message to all potential future ‘traitors’ like Aleynikov that trying to go independent and /or stealing proprietary information about High Frequency Trading from Wall St will not go unpunished.
The patsy in this case is lucky they’ve withdrawn all the bogus charges and allowed him to live, albeit in what I’m sure will forever be a diminished state of ever-present perpetual fear of the U.S. government, it’s agencies and its agents. Aka ‘Freedom”.