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The charges should be dropped. This was back in the time of stack ranking. The performance review he got wasn't just emotionally hurtful or annoying. It actual
by michaelochurch 13y ago
The charges should be dropped.
This was back in the time of stack ranking. The performance review he got wasn't just emotionally hurtful or annoying. It actually fucked with his reputation. In a typical stack-ranking regime, performance reviews are part of the transfer packet, actively making it hard to impossible for the employee to fix the situation on his own. While this action was probably overreach, some retaliation is to be expected under such regimes. If a company can't handle that sort of thing, it needs to ditch stack ranking (which Microsoft, admirably, has apparently done).
This doesn't 100% absolve him of responsibility (he still deserves to lose his job over the leak) but it absolves him enough that criminal charges are just inappropriate and wrong for the situation.
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- Fede_V 13y agoUhh, what? Stack ranking is terrible and I'm glad MS got rid of it, but how does it justify leaking code in retaliation? How does it 'absolve him enough'? That's a crazy moral framework.
- michaelochurch 13y agoMisread. I was confusing this with another case where no actual code was leaked.
- talmand 13y agoIf he broke federal laws I'm sure the FBI could care less about the performance review.
- reeses 13y agoExcept that it nicely ties up that 'motive' part of probable cause. The challenge will be for the prosecution to suppress the stack rank system from any trial as it could prejudice a jury.
- talmand 13y agoIf they have him dead to rights on the breach, they probably wouldn't need motive for probable cause to investigate. If you walked out of a bank carrying a big bag of money while wearing a ski mask I'm sure the police won't bother over why you want the money so badly before investigating. I would think a prosecutor could still use it in the trial if planned properly. Might as well prepare because I would guess the defense would try to use the old "they deserved it!" defense.
- jsmthrowaway 13y agoSo what'd you leak from Google since, by your account, you got fucked on perf? Or are the wild accusations about a Grand Political Conspiracy, Target: mchurch, your idea of retaliation for bad perf? I'm just extrapolating from you leaving this hilarious comment.