Word: sklyarov
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...Ridiculous, no? But that's exactly what happened to Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer whom the FBI had locked up for the better part of a month before he was freed on bail Monday, pending arraignment later this month. He wrote a little program that allowed you to take e-books, specifically ones in the Adobe e-reader format, and transport them wherever you liked. And he didn't even do that in this country, he did it in Moscow, where such a thing is perfectly legal. But Adobe purchased a copy of this software through a third-party vendor...
...Adobe changed its mind on the Sklyarov issue in the face of outrage from some very organized programmers, and was soon calling for his release. But the fact that you'll also find Adobe's name attached to the Rosetta Books time-limit deal shows that the San Jose-based company has a very bad sense of timing - either that, or it's intentionally courting controversy...
Publicly, however, Moscow describes its nuclear generators as thoroughly up < to date. In an article on Chernobyl in the February 1986 issue of Soviet Life, an English-language publication, Ukrainian Power Minister Vitali Sklyarov boasted that "the odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years." In any case, he added, "the environment is also securely protected...