Posted on 08/04/2020 5:45:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said Levandowski, who was convicted on Tuesday following a March plea agreement, said Levandowski could enter custody once the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided.
Alsup said a sentence short of imprisonment would have given “a green light to every future brilliant engineer to steal trade secrets,” comparing what Levandowski took to a “competitor’s game plan.”
The 75-year-old judge, who has been involved in Silicon Valley litigation for nearly five decades, described Levandowski’s conviction as the “biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen.”
“Billions [of dollars] in the future were at play, and when those kind of financial incentives are there good people will do terrible things, and that’s what happened here,” Alsup said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Levandowski, with a “v”. Not Corey. Headline caught my eye, though.
Like Google stealing other people's work and passing it along as their own "google answers"?
Is this guy the Polish “Cher”?
Ditto
Same here - first thought was,”What kind of swamp play is it this time?”.
Why did you leave out the first name on the excerpt?
So this was that big a deal?
What? Was he stealing Google’s Social Scoring AI code that China uses to decide who needs re-education?
Or was it the Contact Tracing and Tracking code for picking up undesirables?
~Easy
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