I'm not one of the people who would ever equate copying code to theft, regardless of intent. But Aleynikov admitted that he expected GS to be upset about it, mo

I'm not one of the people who would ever equate copying code to theft, regardless of intent. But Aleynikov admitted that he expected GS to be upset about it, mostly due to their cultural attitudes about IP (ie: everything is theirs). Note that he didn't "bundling and uploading everything" he specifically avoided uploading the trading strategies code. On the one hand, people seem to be giving GS a pass for stripping the copyright notices from GPL'd code they used, but taking them at their word and treating it as high treason when Aleynikov makes a copy of the modified GPL code for himself. >> "McSwain later conceded that he didn’t seek out independent expert advice to study the code Serge Aleynikov had taken." >This is the very surprising part. It's just the lazy careless work of a modern day Pinkerton man.