This comment highlights the ignorance of a lot of people in this thread jumping to conclusion and view MS instantly as an aggressor and themselves as victims of the obvious and horrible crime of copyright infringement.
A) Do you know it was not an honest mistake?
B) Why a complete understanding of esoteric legal copyright laws created by non-programmers all of a sudden so important to a mainly programmer HN audience?
Are you joking? Programming is all about intellectual property. A complete understanding of copyright laws is important for anyone in the tech industry.
Jurisprudence is a specialty beyond the skill level of an average lawyer. It's like saying to be able to eat you need to have a complete understanding of how to raise a chicken.
A) Do you know it was not an honest mistake?
B) Why a complete understanding of esoteric legal copyright laws created by non-programmers all of a sudden so important to a mainly programmer HN audience?