http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer
i read this in full. what struck me was how peaceful sergey has become after his experiences in prison. although he attained all the "normal" trappings associated with high-earning positions, he wasn't *actually* that interested in them as such, and was likely quite grateful for their enforced removal. so my concern is this: to appeal to sergey and his former defense lawyer, the normal "outrage" route that we as readers might be feeling should be appropriate in approaching him for help would be unlikely to be successful. he hasn't got "vengeance" on his mind as he's simply not that kind of person. what *might* appeal to him is the defense of the GPL in general, namely that now that it has come to light (why in god's name nobody spotted this earlier i don't know [*1]) that the removal of copyright notices by goldman sachs are themselves GPL violations, it would be dangerous for the *entire* free software world not to pursue criminal infringment against goldman sachs, because this would give strength to anyone - including goldman sachs - when pursuing estoppel defense strategies (i believe it's "estoppel by laches" i.e. beyond a certain time limit it's reasonable to "assume forgiveness" for breach of contract... or in this case license - in germany you have i believe it's only *30 days* to file a lawsuit, from the day of discovery of breach of a license!) as this is quite subtle, does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do, here? my idea would be to contact the SFLC, see if they have time to take this up. l. [*1] http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2013-August/004113.html [*2] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/estoppel
