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MS could have used open source but instead stole Plurk

You know how Microsoft was caught this week having stolen code from Plurk for a microblogging website in China? Well, as Mike Masnick notes at Techdirt, Canadian-based open source uber-micro-blogging platform StatusNet would have been perfectly happy for MS to use their code.

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December 18 2009, 9:57pm | Original Link »