amix shares Microsoft China rips off Plurk and steals 80% of our client base code and most design elements

Sue!!!

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:45PM

neenu

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:46PM

rinella

says

woooooottt

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:46PM

rinella

says

sue sue sue them!!!!

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:47PM

Nazali Spica

says

so that's why plurk can't pass through the great firewall of china

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:47PM

First they steal Open Source code (Though I think they hired someone else for that?) and now they steal from a social network.

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:47PM

salmasafia

says

ftw?

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:47PM

Makes me think they ripped off OS X long ago.

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:47PM

Olivia Bell

hopes

Plurk kicks their butts.

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:48PM

ｼｪｰﾘ

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:49PM

Bevan

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:49PM

shaf	creating a bit of a stir on twitter

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:49PM

thegreatWAN

hopes

so too!

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:51PM

deden

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:52PM

βL4ckmØØn

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:56PM

deniz

says

sue'em

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:56PM

churreh !

china msn is a bitch O:

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:58PM

jon426

says

twittered and dugg

Dec 14, 2009 - 03:59PM

Gentatsu

replurked.

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:00PM

Fuyuki

says

OUCH.

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:00PM

kingm

replurked.

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:02PM

amix	thanks all for the support and for getting the word out!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:03PM

морав

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:04PM

beminedesign

MS sucks!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:04PM

Rosanna Bell

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:05PM

♪Kend♪™

says

what the heak with them? I still love plurk!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:05PM

Plurkbuddy this!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:05PM

shaf	good luck amix, this could get messy. All the best

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:07PM

♪Kend♪™

says

replurked

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:09PM

Tania_

yeah, plurkbuddy -it, would be great...

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:09PM

King Paladin

says

Digg this!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:10PM

gleber

kaiestse, difference is only in legan point of view. Otherwise this is the same company

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:10PM

Kaji

says

If it's an authorized affiliate to work in the country then yeah. Just like how Sony Japan and Sony USA are part of the same company

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:10PM

Kaji

says

Just localization

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:11PM

Kaji

says

Perhaps this should get reposted on StackOverflow; it'd certainly generate an uproar over there!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:12PM

Nazali Spica

kaji: there's also a stackoverflow copy over there in china

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:12PM

gleber

Please spread the word wherever you think it is appropriate!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:13PM

Nazali Spica

www.cnprog.com/

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:13PM

i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr23/billypan101/onion/004.gif

has

sent it to the four winds via posterous.

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:13PM

sjjh

says

plurk comes out late but swinging

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:15PM

zozo!

Dugg

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:19PM

Ryankon

says

Thieve! Thieve!!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:21PM

memil ツ

dugg

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:21PM

kapsel

says

sue those biatches!

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:21PM

jon426

says

digg the post here

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:26PM

Juliana

says

im sure i will stick with plurk

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:27PM

memil ツ

wait Plurk is the #1 microblogging service in Asia? that's pretty cool. and it explains a lot

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:29PM

kingm

dugg.

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:30PM

Loli	replurking this

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:30PM

Olivia Bell

plurklayouts.com/microsoft-china-rips-off-plurk-asias-no-1-microblogging-service/ - hoping people will support in some way

Dec 14, 2009 - 04:52PM

agyu	replurked, tweeted!

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:00PM

dmantz7

says

M$ would have you in court if you had done that. They need a major out cry from all of us Plurk.

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:00PM

dmantz7

asks

if I may cross-post your blog about this on my site?

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:02PM

Edward² ™

says

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:17PM

daysies

says

whoa! this is madness! i can't believe they just did that...

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:20PM

Madame Maracas

that's sickening, reposting. Grrrr!

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:26PM

Kassy

OMG!!!! Can you sue them?

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:31PM

naphi

says

shame!!

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:39PM

sociallydistressed

Submitted it to slashdot slashdot.org/submission/1133696/Microsoft-China-Borrows-from-Plurk?art_pos=1

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:41PM

stardolphin

says

Microsoft has no qualms about stealing code.

Dec 14, 2009 - 05:50PM

roga

Dec 14, 2009 - 06:08PM

debolsillo

says

to M$ China

Dec 14, 2009 - 06:08PM

gleber

here's Russian translation

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:06PM

Mr. Foligno

says

This is so terrible.. Copyright infringement at it's most extreme. I hope this gets resolved quickly and justly.

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:06PM

albb0920.nil?

says

Sue them!

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:07PM

Mr. Foligno

says

You should contact news companies about this. Bring it into the public.

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:08PM

Madame Maracas

thinks

if we all spread the word far and wide, MS China won't be able to hide, they'll be brought into the light of justice!!

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:08PM

Please support the news on digg.com

says

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:11PM

TheBadMonkey

shameful. simply shameful.

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:17PM

says

and on hacker news

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:21PM

says

and reddit

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:21PM

Ryankon

says

And Facebook

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:22PM

snarker

and habr

Dec 14, 2009 - 07:23PM

Mr. Foligno

says

There needs to be somewhere that Plurkers can donate money to Plurk so they can fight this.

Dec 14, 2009 - 09:20PM

Grue

says

www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/aemgi/microsoft_china_launches_a_site_that_rips_off/ upvote on reddit

Dec 14, 2009 - 09:27PM

Grue

says

btw scoundrel your reddit submission was autoblocked, i'll try to notify the mods. Meanwhile upvote mine instead.

Dec 14, 2009 - 09:38PM

says

upvoted

Dec 14, 2009 - 11:26PM

zenbu

to m$ china

Dec 15, 2009 - 12:08AM

TC (Timbo)

feels

really gutted for you guys. You deserve so much better treatment than this!

Dec 15, 2009 - 12:32AM

andrytan

says

microsoft dick head

Dec 15, 2009 - 01:52AM

DebInAustin

says

UNREAL!

Dec 15, 2009 - 03:08AM

aBihas

says

assholes

Dec 15, 2009 - 04:08AM

dmantz7

says

here is my blog post in support dmantz7.edublogs.org

Dec 15, 2009 - 04:30AM

Your article in Bahasa Indonesia version

Dec 15, 2009 - 04:36AM

haerulrijal, silahkan. boleh tahu alamat blognya juga?

Dec 15, 2009 - 04:37AM

ryanlim

nitasellya: thanks. the blog post has been updated with the Indonesian translation

Dec 15, 2009 - 04:43AM

ryanlim. hope it helps

Dec 15, 2009 - 05:12AM

haerulrijal: kewl

*meluncur*

Dec 15, 2009 - 05:37AM

artharry

says

woooo, mikocok edan..

Dec 15, 2009 - 08:07AM

Schwarz

says

that would never happen at Microsoft itself. This is done by some contractor. Still not ok of course

Dec 15, 2009 - 08:10AM

Schwarz

says

Don't call them M$ and childish things like that

Dec 15, 2009 - 06:31PM

schwarz: they do it by inaction, and I don't think M$ is a childish reference. I've worked with them (not for them) as a developer.

Dec 15, 2009 - 08:32PM

Schwarz

says

so have I

Dec 15, 2009 - 10:33PM

schwarz: fair enough (I thought you had) - apparently we had different experiences.

Dec 15, 2009 - 10:38PM

Jenny

says

tsk, so cruel. so rude.

Dec 15, 2009 - 10:46PM

Jenny

says

copycat. so damn MADE IN CHINA! imitations!!!!

Dec 16, 2009 - 12:49AM

Bevan

says

barked about it in twitter

Dec 16, 2009 - 12:51AM

Mike ██

says

Dec 16, 2009 - 04:09AM