AOL might have a case... don't know, IANAL. Doubtless they could tie him up in court. However, I don't imagine they would try to touch him. The kid has the mak

AOL might have a case... don't know, IANAL. Doubtless they could tie him up in court. However, I don't imagine they would try to touch him. The kid has the makings of a modern folk-hero—it could only result in bad PR for AOL if they did go after him. The response from the AOL spokesperson makes it seem like they are taking the incident in good humour: "It was always our intention to facilitate entrepreneurialism in the Palo Alto office -- we just didn't expect it to work so well."