Markus

this is madness, pure, madness. What a bunch of total pillocks!

Soulgirl

I bet they could have sued him for spying or something... there is always something!

chiark

He disclosed confidential information. He also set out to ridicule his employer.

Which part of that is surprising?

Whilst it was heavy handed, and the sensible thing to do would be to ask him to remove the pictures, you hardly want someone out to embarass your firm working for you.

Gedi

agreed with chiark.
This was publicised on the register this morning.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/33662.html
He reblogged admitting it was his misjudgement, and the fact that M$ were well within their rights to get rid.

Although I do think its harsh, I wouldn't like employees making fun out of my company (not that I have one )

Hes got a paypal set up now to try and make money out of people feeling sorry for him.....heh.

[Edited by Gedi - 10/30/2003 4:26:32 PM]

class_A

It isn't even an unusual sight. The G5's were probably headed for the Mac Business Unit, the largest Mac dev team outside Apple!

Fatman

MS still develop Mac software. It would be a revelation if they didn't use Mac hardware for coding/testing. Yes, I know MS favours it's Wintel alliance image but they're not denying working on Mac products.

Yes, this does seem like an extreme and - to me - unreasonable reaction from MS.

Markus

ok, so MS does have a point, but, as stated, they could have asked him to remove the offending material, rather than just sack him, that is the extreme bit. As said, not unusual to see Macs at MS.