Thursday, 30. October 2003
Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For G5 Blog Photo

Poor Michael Hanscom.....

"Microsoft has fired a full-time temp employee after it discovered that the employee posted in his blog a photo and story concerning Microsoft's purchase of what looks to be around 18 G5s. Check out the blog entry, Even Microsoft wants G5s, and the one that follows it. Microsoft fired the blogger, despite an offer to take the posting down. Note that this is not a free speech issue, even though the blog was hosted on a non-company server, because Microsoft is not, yet, the government. But it does present several other interesting issues, including that of the trade-off between the bad publicity that comes from the firing and whatever bad results follow when employees feel free to post such things."

The evidence:

Here the link to his homepage Weblog:

http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/even_microsoft_.html

Here the link to the media artikals:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/10/29/1421223.shtml?tid=109&tid=187

http://www.macguardians.de/index.php?p=2509&c=1

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