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Bill Gates ignores Gorbachev's plea for leniency
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In an unsurprising move, Microsoft's Bill Gates rejects Mikhail Gorbachev's plea to intervene and assist in the case of a school teacher being sentenced for "piracy"
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Microsoft is sidestepping an appeal from a former leader of the Soviet Union to intervene in a piracy case involving a school principal.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who is credited with aiding the end of the Cold War, wrote to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Monday asking for help in halting the trial of Aleksandr Ponosov, 40, who could face up to five years in prison.
In the letter, posted on his Web site in Russian, Gorbachev wrote that his country finds the prosecution of Ponosov scandalous. Ponosov, 40, was charged in November with using more than US$10,000 in pirated Microsoft software. Full Story |
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