Dec 15, 2009

Microsoft Stealing Webcode??

It seems weird to think that such a large company that employs some of the most tech savvy programmers would steal code from another company, but that is what Plurk is accusing them of. Plurk is a social networking site that claims to be "a social journal for your life". They claimed this week that Microsoft of intellectual property theft. Microsoft China recently introduced their own microblogging service called Juku, which Plurk claims is mostly code from their service. Microsoft admitted that it could have code from their site, but blamed it on an independent vendor.

You can read the blog post by Plurk that shows some similarities in code and design. Below is one of the pictures from that blog.


Even though Microsoft shut down the Juku site, at least temporarily, Plurk isn't completely happy with that. They believe that Microsoft is just placing the blame on an independent vendor so that they will not have to be responsible for the so called stolen code. This is not the first time in recent weeks that Microsoft has placed the blame on someone else. Last month they were forced to remove a Windows 7 media and administration tool from the Microsoft Store site after a violation of the GPL.
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2 comments:

  1. Ahmed AledreessiDecember 16, 2009 at 4:34 AM

    Hmm, interesting post Michelle! It seems that Big companies can get away with almost anything nowadays which really sucks for the underdogs. I have always assumed that codes are considered to be an open source. I never thought that they actually can sue for that. I kinda hope they win because that would be a good warning for any companies who could think about taking advantage of other services.

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  2. Kevin BlamerDecember 16, 2009 at 5:18 PM

    There is just no need for this. If this accusation is true, Microsoft should be sued to the fullest extent. It is one thing if a smaller company were to do this, but one as big as Microsoft, with its numerous programmers I cannot see them needing to copy code when they can produce it themselves in a short amount of time.

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