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Microsoft vs. Burst.com

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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030828.html" author="Robert Cringely" source="PBS" title="Stupid Microsoft Tricks: Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat">Stupid Microsoft Tricks</a> talks about recent happenings in yet another lawsuit for anti-competitive practices that Microsoft is involved in; in this case, they are accused of flat-out stealing another company's technology after prolonged (2 years) discussions with that company about licensing. When asked to provide all emails from that period, the record at Microsoft came up blank for 35 weeks. <bq>The reason for this mass erasure, it was explained, is that Burst technology was unimpressive and not of interest to Microsoft, and the e-mails were simply not worth keeping.</bq> Is anyone going to be held liable for this obvious purgery?