Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy

Piracy Support Line writes "Russian principal Alexander Ponosov will not be visiting Siberia any time soon, at least not for the allegedly illegal Microsoft software that were preloaded on the computers they bought and Microsoft supported the reseller's story. Although Bill Gates rejected Mikhail Gorbachev's personal appeal for mercy on behalf of the teacher, the judge was kinder. Judge Elvira Mosheva decided to dismiss the case because 'Microsoft's financial damage is too insignificant for a criminal investigation.'"

Let me...

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me be the first to say "In Soviet Russia..."

Forgive me, but...

[Wes Janson]

In soviet russia, courts treat you justly!

..Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia ? He lives there!

[Anonymous Coward]

This rises an interesting question. Where do they deport the inhabitants of Siberia when they are found guilty in a court of law? To Kiev, Leningrad or Odessa?. Maybe they are preemptively punished for the very fact of living in Siberia. They are already punished by their place of birth without commiting any crime. They accumulate 'punishment credit' for future and thus they and can commit any crime they wish without any further punishment (maybe with the exception of murder).

Piracy? In school?

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy

Clearly they are not teaching the three "Arrrrr!"s in school these days.

Re:it is not "odd", but basic law

[kfg]

The way Microsoft has turned the government against the people is a good example of how rotten the company is . . .

Once again Microsoft fails to be the actual innovator; they're just ripping off Disney.

KFG

Re:Thief got away...

[aussie_a]

They pirated it.

Re:Good

[Anonymous Coward]

Send him some ubuntu discs

Re:ramifications

[iamacat]

You guys do realize that Siberia is, overall, a nice place to live?

• Warm summers, with plenty of swimmable lakes and rivers
  
• Plenty of unspoiled nature, with berry trees on city streets and forests for anything from casual walks to weeklong backpacking
  
• Major science center (Academgorodok)
  
• Hot water central heating that makes inside of apartments warmer in winter than most homes in US
  
• Cross country skiing and tubbing right outside your apartment building.
  

Re:What did you expect?

[rifter]

5: Putin came out in defense of the administrator. What he says, goes.

So a guy who gasses his own people, murders journalists, fixes elections and tries to kill the guy who won when it didn't work ... is more merciful, reasonable, and just than Bill Gates. Damn. You would think this would be a wake up call for Bill Gates.

Re:Putin's comment in Russian

[nacturation]

"No vot tak vzyat' i hvatat' cheloveka za to, chto on kupil tam komp'yuter kakoj-to i ugrozhat' emu tyur'moj, eto chush' sobach'ya"

Cool! Putin speaks Klingon.
 

Re:Siberia

[drinkypoo]

Right, to Siberia, where the bears walk on the streets socializing with bearded men.

No, that's San Francisco.