Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming From : Randy Howard Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 11:23 pm Richard Heathfield wrote (in article ): > If he broke American copyright law (and that's very much in doubt, since the > program he wrote was written in Russia under Russian law, not in the USA > under USA law), then by all means let Adobe sue him, and let a judge decide > whether he has broken US law /whilst on US soil/. But Adobe had him > /imprisoned/. That's a very different matter indeed. No, they asked for it, and some US government representatives made it happen. If there is real blame to be applied, it is probably to a prosecutor in the US. Anyone can walk into a DA's office and ask that someone be arrested. Of course, it rarely happens, and certainly never without some cooperation from the government entity with jurisdiction. -- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) .