Tao Group Chosen by Microsoft for Strategic Alliance

[KennyR]

Another tasty morsel for Microsoft to swallow.

Milk small companies for innovations they can't work out themselves, legally steal the innovations, then dump the company. Thats how MS works.

[KennyR]

Hammer wrote:
Note that Internet Explorer (refer about) contains licenses from other companies.

Of course they wouldn't credit the smaller companies whose technology they've taken but haven't licenced, would they?

We know MS do this. They've done it overtly in the past and shown no regret.

[KennyR]

Wayne wrote:
If the "smaller company" would have done a better job with their legal department, it wouldn't have been an issue.

That sounds too much like, "If you don't want to get shot, stay out of the way of my bullet!"

Microsoft can do what they do because they have very powerful legal representation, and because they know the companies they take technology from can't do much about it. The only way to beat Microsoft in the courts is to make the legal action more expensive than it's worth for the technology. But nobody can really do that without being ruined in the process.