[harrygeez]

What happened was truly awful, but I don't think it's fair to blame MSFT when probably what happened was a few employees trying to take all credit for code they didn't write. From the thread it seems that he did not reach out to MSFT via any official channels and only informed "people he knew at MSFT".

[hliyan]

Unfortunately, the thing about corporate personhood is that corporations are responsible for the actions of their employees. Unless of course, they can show that the employee was acting against explicit instructions or policies.

[djajshgsjja]

Without a doubt, stealing code like this is against policies at Microsoft.

[jen20]

So, someone should be fired for violation of these (serious) policies?

[lobotryas]

If what the author says is true then yes. Unfortunately they really bungled their case by trying to reach out through unofficial channels first.

[swerveonem]

Why does reaching out informally bungle the case?

[finnthehuman]

Under the principle-agent relationship (the concept, not the legal definition), I do think it's fair to blame Microsoft if they don't remedy this soon.

Out of curiosity, who _would_ the right person to contact at Microsoft be? In my experience public channels exist to isolate the rest of an organization from having to deal with the outside (including complaints about bad behavior).

[shanselman]

[e-mail] or make an issue in GH or tweet any one of a dozen people like Miguel or me or Martin who care deeply about this stuff. It’ll all get routed eventually to the Office of Open Source.