Tuesday, July 3rd 2007
'Show us the code' project supposedly silenced by Microsoft
Back in February, a blogger who went by the alias "DigDuality" got fed up with Microsoft's accusations of the open source community. And so, from work, he started a website that challenged Microsoft to find any IP violations *nix was making. May came, May went, and the website became about as active as an exhausted gold mine. Now, a few days into July, "DigDuality" has returned to his blog. He claims that Microsoft traced the website to DD's company, and that Microsoft threatened his company. The company, according to DD, then proceeded to give DD a choice: he could either keep the website running, or keep his job. DD preferred the latter, and so, the website has remained inactive for quite some time. DD refused to name the company that told DD to hold his tongue.
Source:
The Inquirer
11 Comments on 'Show us the code' project supposedly silenced by Microsoft
All Microsoft has done here is bought their resistance free publicity.
Oh, it's okay guys, this is just capitalism at work and Microsoft is a company and they have the moral right to do anything they want about their product.
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It's more likely that the company found out he was using their equipment for non work related activities and told him to knock it off or lose his job.
I, of course, could be wrong.