Re: [新聞] 噗浪遭中國微軟抄襲 創辦人：沒錢找律師 - 部落格

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作者: Alexboo (身如柳絮隨波擺) 看板: Gossiping
標題: Re: [新聞] 噗浪遭中國微軟抄襲 創辦人：沒錢找律師
時間: Wed Dec 16 10:40:32 2009


微軟最新回應

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-15statement.mspx

Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

REDMOND, Wash. – Dec. 15, 2009 –

On Monday, December 14, questions arose over a beta application called
Juku developed by a Chinese vendor for our MSN China joint venture. We
immediately worked with our MSN China joint venture to investigate the
situation.

The vendor has now acknowledged that a portion of the code they provided
was indeed copied. This was in clear violation of the vendor’s contract
with the MSN China joint venture, and equally inconsistent with Microsoft’
s policies respecting intellectual property.

When we hire an outside company to do development work, our practice
is to include strong language in our contract that clearly states the
company must provide work that does not infringe the intellectual
property rights of others. We are a company that respects intellectual
property and it was never our intent to have a site that was not respectful
of the work that others in the industry have done.

We will be suspending access to the Juku beta indefinitely.

We are obviously very disappointed, but we assume responsibility for
this situation. We apologize to Plurk and we will be reaching out to
them directly to explain what happened and the steps we have taken to
resolve the situation.

In the wake of this incident, Microsoft and our MSN China joint venture
will be taking a look at our practices around applications code provided
by third-party vendors.

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微軟: 被你抓到囉 協力廠商承認是抄的 那後續再研究看看
一件落著 可喜可賀 可喜可賀



PS: 昨天看老外的blog有提到這件事
不過老外們似乎認為Plurk要提出實質損害來要求賠償有難度


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