It is a bit disturbing how many are responding without bothering to read the actual article which goes out of its way to get people to understand that "diplomatic immunity" was *NOT* granted and that a slew of other organizations, some a bit more dubious then INTERPOL, already have the immunities in question.
If Microsoft had disclosed that they released the code to avoid a violation then the anti-Microsoft crowd would have proclaimed that Microsoft was only releasing the code because they had to, not because they wanted to.
No matter the course of action Microsoft could have taken, they still would have been criticized.
The article says that the server was confiscated by the police; with that in mind, and the fact that the trial was still going underway today, then how did the server leave the possession of the police and wind up with the Bureau of Piracy?
... weeks of sleeping in a nearby hotel and houses rented for them by the government... the phenomenon occurs only when there are people present... The evacuated families... gather almost every night in the three-star hotel perched above their abandoned village...
You know, if I lived in some rural village and my government was willing to pay my rent to live in a 3-star hotel on a hillside, I think my appliances just might magically catch fire also.
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It is a bit disturbing how many are responding without bothering to read the actual article which goes out of its way to get people to understand that "diplomatic immunity" was *NOT* granted and that a slew of other organizations, some a bit more dubious then INTERPOL, already have the immunities in question.
If Microsoft had disclosed that they released the code to avoid a violation then the anti-Microsoft crowd would have proclaimed that Microsoft was only releasing the code because they had to, not because they wanted to. No matter the course of action Microsoft could have taken, they still would have been criticized.
The article says that the server was confiscated by the police; with that in mind, and the fact that the trial was still going underway today, then how did the server leave the possession of the police and wind up with the Bureau of Piracy?
You know, if I lived in some rural village and my government was willing to pay my rent to live in a 3-star hotel on a hillside, I think my appliances just might magically catch fire also.