Microsoft is by all fair accounts a fairly large pot to be calling Google a black kettle. Here’s an interesting take on Microsoft’s most recent shot over Google’s bow:
A massive brouhaha has erupted following Microsoft head attorney Thomas Rubin’s comments in a speech to the Association of American Publishers accusing Google of a ‘cavalier approach to copyright’ – be it in selling AdWords for pirated content, scanning the books of others, taking news headlines and categorizing them in Google News or through the delivery of video content via Youtube.
Of course Microsoft has itself copied plenty of ideas in the past, and championed the idea of ‘embrace and extend’. Windows has always been seen as a copy of Apple’s Mac OS, which itself took ideas from Xerox’s groundbreaking work in developing a graphical user interface.
iTWire - Copyright: Microsoft shot at Google justified or just garbage?
