Subj : Re: tools to build design of application To : comp.programming From : Richard Heathfield Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 03:41 pm Gerry Quinn wrote: > In article , > invalid@address.co.uk.invalid says... > >> For the record, the objections I have to PDF are two-fold: >> >> (1) the Dmitri Sklyarov case still rankles - Adobe were directly >> responsible for the USA imprisoning him despite the fact that the >> software he developed was written in Russia for a Russian software house >> and legal under Russian law. > > He sold it in the US where it wasn't. And the company he worked for > was responsible for all sorts of malware including tools for spammers > and for system intrusion. > > It is unfortunate that he was not punished more severely. Ah, I can always trust you to take a contrary view, Mr Quinn. Of course, just because you say it's so, that doesn't make it so. I am also reasonably sure that, had a US citizen in Russia been treated the way Sklyarov was, Usanians would have been outraged - and rightly so. -- Richard Heathfield "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk mail: rjh at above domain .