From: za kAT on
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:18:33 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote:

> Plenty of
> politicians and businessmen are corrupt...all over the world.

> I should know. I ran drugs for years.

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From: Gordon Darling on
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:08:07 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote:

<snip>

> I mean, for gosh
> sakes, who cares about reality.

Not BB, that's for sure!

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From: Steve Terry on
"Dave U. Random" <anonymous(a)anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote in message
news:d173a2a81b58efadbbee7907e99c11b9(a)anonymitaet-im-inter.net...
> Bear Bottoms wrote:
<snip>
> That's a splendid argument, for a halfwit. A kind of third rate excuse,
> for championing criminalware.
>
>
Criminalware.
That's a new one on me, is that another name for Microsoft?

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From: HTH on
Dave U Random wrote:

>"idiot, in the real world, smart people are using Vista"


really?

HTH

From: »Q« on
In <news:8amfjsF8i3U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Mike Easter <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote:

> That is, it would seem logical that there's a distinct possibility
> that if .cn had any IP laws, that the executives who left the big
> Rising to startup little Micropoint, they may have taken with them
> expertise or IP that they developed while working for Rising.

That's an allegation I hadn't seen before. Is it just speculation?

Yuan was accused of breaking into systems to steal secrets, not taking
IP that he and Liu had developed. He was also accused of spreading
viruses. AFAICT, he's been completely exonerated by Yu's confessions.

> Apparently the .cn official took bribes from a number of companies.
>
> One of the accused bribers is now the Rising exec. That accusation
> doesn't necessarily mean that the Rising exec paid the corrupt .cn
> official to hassle Micropoint, maybe he just paid him to 'help'
> Rising, such as to help Rising investigate whether or not they had
> been robbed of IP by the departing braintrustees.

I can't find any journalists writing anything that supports that take
on things. They've been reporting that the allegations he confessed to
included a conspiracy with Rising to 'help' them by framing Micropoint.

<http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/29477/>

Yu Bing, former director of the Internet Supervision Department of the
Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, was suspected of partnering
with anti-virus software company Rising to frame its competitor,
Beijing Micropoint Technology, resulting in the latter's failure to
launch its new product in the hotly competitive Chinese market.

Tried for nepotism, corruption, and accepting bribes of 14 million
yuan (US$2.05 million), Mr. Yu pleaded guilty on all bribery charges
and confessed more of the details.

'''

Mr. Yu also arranged fabricated evidence to frame Tian Yakui, former
Rising Vice President before becoming Vice President of Micropoint. As
a result, Tian spent eleven months in custody.

Is there some reason to think that the papers have got it all wrong,
giving us misinformation about what Yu confessed to? Or that Yu's
confessions were lies?