@JohnnyS > I’m not against capitalism, (far from it!), but this is a case where the problem is caused by pure greed, so how do we penalize that greed while not impeding the brilliant and generous contributions of the FOSS leadership? I think a large part of the problem is the push to make things "fire and forget" when the reality is that most things function like an iterated challenge-response conversation. The temptation is to create some law or regulation or rule that will forever solve the problem in question, but there is no "happily ever after" in the real world. To my mind, a system is inherently broken if it merely seeks to punish wrongdoing rather than focussing on fixing the flaw that allowed that bad behavior to occur in the first place. So I don't see the greedy for-profit companies as necessarily bad, but I would argue that they should be intrinsically liable when they fail to deliver whatever value-added feature they promised. Same goes for all sorts of processes that *should* be scientific, but are not. Here we have a story of Microsoft hiring a guy who was not only bad at his job, but was sufficiently mismanaged to the point where he could defraud them out of millions over the span of years. That's what I call a massively failed hypothesis on the part of their HR department! Clive is correct when he says it's been a problem for more than 20 years, too. The problem of power corrupting is ancient. It's just sad to see large chunks of civilization sliding back to pre-scientific thinking at a time when technology is in control of so much of our world. And as much as I'd like to blame the monopolists at the top who are breaking capitalism, most of the blame rests squarely on the masses that give them the power to do so. 3809da30a4c9e79c66a214f855720126e6ea2161f1f46d69adce90b72964f5ef