Why all the downvotes? It's true. It is easier having to apologise for a bad vendor then for a bad department. "The vendor has now acknowledged that a portion

Why all the downvotes? It's true. It is easier having to apologise for a bad vendor then for a bad department. "The vendor has now acknowledged that a portion of the code they provided was indeed copied. This was in clear violation of the vendor’s contract with the MSN China joint venture, and equally inconsistent with Microsoft’s policies respecting intellectual property." That would have been a lot harder if it had been a Microsoft team.