Yesterday, Plurk had an issue with the release of MSN China’s microblogging service, Juku. (Juku was developed by a Chinese vendor.) In short, that the developers of Juku had directly copied Plurk code.
Well, today, Microsoft released a statement acknowledging that some of the code was in fact copied:
“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.”
And it also apologized to Plurk:
“We are obviously very disappointed, but we assume responsibility for this situation. We apologize to Plurk and we will be reaching out to them directly to explain what happened and the steps we have taken to resolve the situation.”
Good job, Microsoft, for investigating and taking care of the issue quickly.
You can read the official statement here.