> On Jan 15, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogiga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:02 PM, William Ray Wing <w...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> What Micro$oft was actually sued for was worse. They would approach a small >> company: “We like your product/technology, we think we are interested in >> buying you out, but we want to see your code to be sure it is >> modular/well-documented/etc.” Then, after looking over the code: “Well, it >> actually doesn’t fit our plans. Sorry.” Six months or so later, >> essentially identical stuff would turn up in a Micro$soft product. >> > > More out of curiosity than anything else, do you have a source? > > -- > Bernardo Sulzbach > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
It came out of a Cringely column several years ago, I don’t remember the date. What I do remember (and failed to add to my note before) was that Micro$soft counted on the mismatch in legal department sizes to pretty much prevent any one small company from suing (or bankrupted them if they tried). It was typically a footnote in the press stories about the government suit and another bullet point in the unfair competition/tactics alleged. Bill -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
