By Anne Broache
Published: Thursday 27 October 2005
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SmartITGuy
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The whole:
"Microsoft regretted the mistake and that "a low-level business person" who was not fully aware of Microsoft's mandate was responsible."
I don't buy that for a second!!! ...
It is Microsoft's ARMY of lawyers who write EVERY contract, NOT internal Microsoft staff!
There's not even a 0.0000000001% chance that the lawyer who DID write the contract - had no idea that Microsoft had restrictions against it from authoring exclusionary contracts.
Who lets newbies/interns write contracts?
If you let a NO-ONE in your company draft/create a contract and pass it to your customers WITHOUT having someone in a higher-up position at least LOOK OVER the contract, then you got much bigger problems than you realize!!!
I'm absolutely certain beyond any doubt that Microsoft did this deliberately. And had no-one complained they would have kept it worded as such, and quite readily used and enforced the exclusionary rules worded in it.
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