When I first read an article by Todd Bishop which stated that a former employee may have spied on Microsoft for a start up, I had to laugh. Microsoft has lost more lawsuits for stealing from other companies than I have fingers and toes over the years. But when corporate spying happens to them, they cry foul. In a time where more of us are becoming totally dismayed by the likes of corporate greed and down right plain old theft by CEO’s, it is hard to stomach this type of corporate crap that seems to have permeated the entire business world.

In Todds’ article he states that:

The company makes the allegations in a lawsuit filed in King Couny Superior Court in Seattle. It says the former employee, Ancora Technologies Inc. founder Miki Mullor, wrote in his October 2005 Microsoft employment application that Ancora was out of business. The suit alleges that Mullor didn’t disclose when hired that he believed one of Microsoft’s anti-piracy technologies, known System Locked Preinstallation (SLP), infringed on an Ancora patent.

Last June, Ancora filed suit against Dell, HP and Toshiba, alleging that their use of SLP violated its patent. Ancora’s site describes the case and asserts, in no uncertain terms, that SLP is its technology.

So what we have is a small company trying to prove that the big companies stole their technology, and resorted to the same practices that the big companies use.

What do you think?

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