Brendan Young Blag » thievery http://www.brendanyoung.net Everything I say is from something, or I made it up Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Microsoft China rips off Plurk http://www.brendanyoung.net/microsoft-china-rips-off-plurk/ http://www.brendanyoung.net/microsoft-china-rips-off-plurk/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:24:52 +0000 Brendan http://www.brendanyoung.net/?p=328 About a year ago before I started using Twitter, I used a pretty neat service called Plurk. It’s similar to Twitter in that you send out a small update about yourself and people who are following you can see it, but Plurk does it with a clever charming horizontal scrolling layout. Eventually everyone in my “internet crowd” made the move to Twitter, so I followed suite.

Jump to today, or yesterday rather. I stumbled upon this article from Plurk’s blog: http://blog.plurk.com/2009/12/14/microsoft-rips-plurk/. Basically, Microsoft China made their own version of Plurk, going as far as to copy Plurk’s layout and change some colors, steal Plurk’s code, change some function names and add some soft returns.

That’s pretty low, Microsoft China.

I’m posting this to help get the word out. If you use Plurk or just want to spread the word, I suggest sending the above article to people you know who would be interested.

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