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____/ nessuno on Tuesday 15 Dec 2009 15:31 : \____
> <Quote>
> "Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but blatant theft of
> code, design, and UI elements is just not cool, especially when the
> infringing party is the biggest software company in the world. Yes,
> weâre talking about Microsoft," reads a blog post from Canada-based
> startup Plurk...
>
> The post claims that ...MSN Juku/Hompy/Mclub, is "by and large an
> EXACT copy of Plurkâs" system and that 80 per cent of its code
> "appears to be stolen directly from Plurk." To support the claim, the
> company posts screenshots of the two services: [see link for
> comparison]
>
> But Plurk says the similarities extend well beyond the visual. The
> company claims that Microsoft has taken Plurkâs custom developed
> libraries, css files, and client code and shamelessly ported them to
> its own service. "Speaking technically, what makes our claim a little
> stronger is that Plurk's client side code was obfuscated to begin
> with, so someone went in there and had to spend some real effort to
> unpack/reengineer the JS code and prettify it on their end," a Plunk
> spokesman told The Reg. "All internal vars have shortnames like B, C,
> D, etc. Everything that interacts with the outside has long names, as
> in the minified Plurk code...
>
> "We would not be going out with this story if we weren't fully
> confident in our allegations of willful intent on their part in taking
> our code."
>
> ...Plurk has a theory. "Given Microsoft's position," the company told
> us, "it appears they felt confident they could navigate some of [the]
> more thorny censorship issues that a startup like ours had challenges
> with and take the market by launching a similar service."
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/15/plurk_accuses_microsoft/
Watch them trying to blame some other company that solicited, just as
they blame bribing and AstroTurfing on Edelman/Waggener Edstrom/Visible
Technologies/others (which they hire for these jobs).
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