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Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the respect-for-intellectual-property dept.

Like2Byte was one of many readers to point out that "Newsforge is reporting that Microsoft was fined by a French court for three million francs "because it illegally included another company's proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D," something which (as the story points out) went mostly unremarked at the time. This is one of the points mentioned by Peruvian Senator David Villanueva Nuñez in his response to Microsoft FUD.

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  1. Re:Sketchy information by HiThere · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    But what they learned from "the Stacker incident" is that crime pays. And if you have the lawyers that MS has, and don't have any ethics that you count as worth anything, then they may be right.

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    I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.