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Microsoft's Battle with Piracy Surfaces
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Posted by: TotalRecall
French court cases against Microsoft from a year ago have just now resurfaced. Microsoft was charged and convicted on software piracy and fined 3 million franc. vnunet is taking on the story:
According to the article, the Commercial Court of Nanterre fined Microsoft because it had illegally included another company's proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D, a top-level animation package that it acquired from SoftImage in 1994.
During the six-year court wrangle that followed, the French company which originally owned the code used in SoftImage, Syn'X Relief, ran out of cash and went bankrupt.
The fight was then taken up by the original individual authors of the code in question and, in September last year, Microsoft was found guilty and fined.
It's easy to see why Microsoft didn't want this out, but rather ironic considering their latest stance on piracy. Read more here.
Source: AnandTech
Posted by: Kdr Kane
Saw that story earlier.
A government official used the word "piracy".
Microsoft wasn't found guilty of piracy. It was found guilty of copyright infringement.
Not a lot of difference, just a fine distinction.
Posted by: SKYHN
Microsoft breaking the law? Say it aint so!! 
Posted by: JANNA
somehow the idea of french justice and fairness in the same sentence dont ring right.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Don't trust any Government whose citizens only bathe once a week.
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