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I remember the "good old days" of the Microsoft Borg.

They were infamous for getting small companies in under NDA, then grabbing their tech, and dumping the small companies (often putting them out of business). They are not alone in this (Apple has done the same thing. I think they even have a term for it -"to Watson" * ). It's just that MS was the most egregious.

It makes me sad to see they are still doing it. I've been fairly impressed by what Nadella has done.

* EDIT: As adamdavidson pointed out, the term that everyone uses is "Sherlocked."

>>ChrisM+(OP)
I believe the more common version of that term is "Sherlocked"

>>amdavi+T
You are correct.

>>ChrisM+(OP)
Here's something that I think was written in the early 1990s. Shows that the leopard hasn't changed its spots much: http://www.davar.net/HUMOR/STORIES/MS-CUISN.HTM