did you read the linked article? i'm guessing not. if all microsoft did was write a clone of stac's product and bundle it with the OS, then that would be quest

did you read the linked article? i'm guessing not. if all microsoft did was write a clone of stac's product and bundle it with the OS, then that would be questionable, but not too bad. But no, what Microsoft did was pretend they were interested in buying Stac, gained access to all their source code as part of their "due diligence," then "changed their minds" and created a nearly identical product "from scratch." Stac was able to get the courts to agree that this was dirty pool, and it cost Microsoft over 80 million dollars.