[H-GEN] Fwd: [research] Request for expert witness

[Peter McConnell]

I have no idea from the content of this letter, how this matter
relates:
        1. To myself.
        2. To the Open Source community.

A programmer is employed by a company for a peiod of time to
develop something, which was copied from somewhere else. He
then leaves and uses the code in direct opposition to his
original employer.
I would question the ethics of this person. 

But I will suggest a solution to the problem: 
* Paul Gearon (gearon at ieee.org) wrote:
> 
> >
> >I have been contacted by John Swinson, a partner in the law firm  
> >Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Brisbane who writes:
> >
> >>I have a client, a young software guy, who has been sued by his
> >>former employer (a graphics design company) claiming that my client
> >>has copied its software that he built when he worked there.  The
> >>issue is that he copied two small JavaScript files - which when the
> >>original software was developed, were probably copied from elsewhere.

I would suggest that the code in question be googled to establish whether
it is original or not.

             regards Peter