Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

They had no end of theories about this, but one was more intriguing than the others. It had to do with the nature of Goldman Sachs these days, and the way people who work for the firm get ahead. As one put it, "Every manager of a Wall Street tech group likes to have people believe that his guys are geniuses. Their whole persona among their peers is that what they and their team do can't be replicated. When people find out that 95 percent of their code is open-source, it kills that perception. . . . So when the security people come to them and tell them about the downloads, they can't say, ‘No big deal.' And they can't say, ‘I don't know what he took.'