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On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach
<mafagafogigante@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did people know this back then or it just surfaced years later? I
> suppose that at the beginning MS was more "vulnerable" than it is
> today.

This was either pre- or early days of the Web which provided to some
degree a shroud of secrecy. Companies today just have to work harder
and pay more lawyers to keep their questionable actions from being
known.