> he chose tedious infrastructure code instead, to get a sense of what non-proprietary libraries that were used That is a generous speculation regarding his mo

> he chose tedious infrastructure code instead, to get a sense of what non-proprietary libraries that were used That is a generous speculation regarding his motives. As GS notes in their response to Vanity Fair, "While some of those files included open source software, the Court determined that 'a substantially greater number of the uploaded files contained proprietary code.'" (emphasis mine) But as far as whether what he did violated the spirit, and now letter of the law we have a conclusive answer direct from Congress: Yes, he did.