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Corporate Espionage Involving a Patent At Microsoft

Posted by kdawson on from the balance-of-wrongdoing dept.

thefickler writes "Microsoft is taking a former employee, Miki Mullor, to court for securing a job at the company in order to steal information that would help with a patent infringement case he filed against PC makers Dell, HP, and Toshiba (in which Microsoft quickly became enmeshed). And while it appears that Mullor did the wrong thing, some pundits are asking: 'If you believed that your patent had been infringed, wouldn't you be tempted to do the same thing?'"

4 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. Re:kdawson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If it results in three multiple orgasms, can you really blame him?

    (off to look for Microsoft FUD...)

  2. Re:WTF? by gzipped_tar · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Are these questions testing whether I'm a Replicant, or a spy, Mr. Holden?"

    --
    Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
  3. Re:Repeat after me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would be breaking of copywrite laws and NOT THEFT

    dumbass retard

    How fortunate you signed off as "dumbass retard" if you don't even know how to spell copyright...

  4. Re:Repeat after me... by alvinrod · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Stallman's goal is to get the software industry to the point where the automobile industry is today."

    In horrible financial troubles and looking for a government bailout?

    I kid, I kid.