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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. Why an entire article? by October_30th · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    And why does this deserve an entire article?

    The congressman's letter was already posted twice.

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  2. Antitrust by freeweed · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Actually was a not half-bad movie, if you can get past Ryan Phillipe (sp?) as a l33t computer geek.

    Tim Robbins' portrayal of the evil CEO was spooky - part Bill Gates, and to me part Steve Jobs. Hell, he even LOOKED a lot like a hip Gates.

    VERY overboard movie in terms of the paranoia/conspiracy theory angle, but still, a fun watch, and a fair bit of industry jokes aimed squarely at Microsoft.

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  3. Re:Please excuse the enormous decoy by Jon+Howard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of... what ever happened to Gary condit and Chandra Levy?

    I must have missed it.

  4. mod parent up please by MrResistor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is probably the most insightful comment I've read today.

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