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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:02 PM, William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> What Micro$oft was actually sued for was worse.  They would approach a sm=
all company: =E2=80=9CWe like your product/technology, we think we are inte=
rested in buying you out, but we want to see your code to be sure it is mod=
ular/well-documented/etc.=E2=80=9D  Then, after looking over the code: =E2=
=80=9CWell, it actually doesn=E2=80=99t fit our plans.  Sorry.=E2=80=9D  Si=
x months or so later, essentially identical stuff would turn up in a Micro$=
soft product.
>

More out of curiosity than anything else, do you have a source?

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Bernardo Sulzbach