Yeah ok, it's not quite like that but this post by Microsoft's Dan Fernandez is too good to be missed. Microsoft does not seem to be contend with threatening Open Source software but they are now going after their own, Microsoft style. The crime: Jamie Cansdale, a developer of a unit testing tool for Visual Studio .NET, has provided a free plugin for Visual Studio Express. MS alleges that Jamie is violating the product's EULA but does not seem prepared to tell him which part of the EULA that is...
I guess that's a bit like Adobe suing its own developers for adding functionality to Flash that isn't provided from the outset. I just can't get over the fact how dumb this is and exactly the opposite of what Adobe would do.
Jamie states in his blog: 'Less than a year ago I was still a hobbyist .NET developer. I created TestDriven.Net as a tool for myself and something that I hoped other .NET developers would find useful. I have no intention of selling out and giving in to this kind of petty bullying without a fight.'
I wish Jamie all the best in this David versus Goliath battle. May it turn into a PR suicide mission for Microsoft.