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Originally Posted by mithrandir
.......Every good program they supply, they bought the company that wrote it and rebranded it. E.g. Visio and SysInternals.
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Not every.... just recently MS lost a court case and have to pay $500 million to an Australian company for stealing the code they use to try stop multiple copies - the hardware fingerprint or whatever its called.
There was an interesting Doco on ABC about it last week, think it was Australian Story.
Ofcourse, MS are appealing the decision.
Edit: Yep, Australian Story, full episode available here:
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specia...al/default.htm