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Title: Microsoft admits Plurk code theft Post by: Alex on December 16, 2009, 12:21:25 PM Microsoft admits Plurk code theft
As reported yesterday about Microsoft MSN China joint venture, Juku, coping popular social networking site, Plurk, today Microsoft admitted that portions of the sites code were copied. Not only did Microsoft China copy code snippets from Plurk, but they even copied a large section of the design. Microsoft admitted today that they hired an outside vendor to handle the design and code for MSN China Joint Venture's Juku site, that later admitted to Microsoft the design and code were copied. Microsoft's contract with the outside vendor was clear that the design and code of the site must not infringe the intellectual property rights of other sites. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/ZdQ_M-iQyRg/microsoft-admits-plurk-code-theft |