__/ [ Richard Rasker ] on Friday 01 June 2007 22:48 \__
>
> OK, Microsoft offers a free toolkit, Visual Studio Express. OK, so people
> start tinkering with it. Then one of the brighter of these tinkerers comes
> up with a very useful extension to this toolkit, and offers it to anyone
> interested - for free, at that.
> Now, did Microsoft say "thank you"? Or did Microsoft even make him a nice
> offer to incorporate this popular extension into their next version of
> VSE? Or did they simply try to steal it off him? Um, not exactly:
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39287310,00.htm?r=1
>
> These people sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Now if they'd
> only do this after placing said extremity in their mouth, the world would
> be a much better place very quickly ...
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