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Just curious, have you guys tried reaching out to Microsoft at all to get this resolved before going public with it?

Microsoft didn't seem to have a problem with going quite public with it.

It's hard to say that about a company with 130,000 employees and consultants.

I highly doubt anyone near the VP level at Microsoft has any idea that some team in China did this.

Yes, but just because everyone at the company didn't decide to do this in unison, doesn't mean that the "company" isn't 100% completely responsible for it.

If the "VP level" at MS doesn't have enough control to prevent an entire department in China from ripping off a popular site and going live with it... then damn. I see no difference between that and Ballmer himself copying and pasting the code.

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