Software piracy by one of the biggest members of the BSA, that would be unthinkable, wouldn't it? Not according to Newsforge and their discovery of a Microsoft owned company that stole another companys code.

NewsForge: The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source

Did you know Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a French court? Not many people do. The Commercial Court of Nanterre fined Microsoft 3 million francs because it illegally included another company's proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D, a top-of-the-line animation package.

Which makes me wonder, how can BSA try to give the regular Joe bad conciousness about using pirated software, when some of their members are involved in piracy on a much higher level?

Not a big surprise that the Wired article about Flash Blogging spawned a lot of comments from the Flash Blog community. Among the more interesting comments were Branden Hall's Wired Up and Blogging, with comments from some other well known Flash bloggers, and Mike Chambers comments about the Flash blogs:

It was John Dowdell who really drove the idea internally at Macromedia. Also, David Burrows' FlashBlog really helped me to realize how useful a tool the weblogs could be.

When it comes to negative feedback, Meg Hourihan aka Megnut has some concerns regarding the Macromedian Flash blogs. Among her concerns are that some of the blogs doesn't flag the writers affiliation. I don't see the problem myself, its not hard to figure out where these guys work if you really want to know. And the weblogs they are running are more personal than professional in my opinion.

John Dowdell has some answers to Megnut's concerns.

I love the Flash weblog community, and the way Macromedia is interacting with the Flash community these days. I hope they won't kill of the experiment they are running right now with the weblogs.

Mike Chambers set up a very interesting interview with the Flash Team Product Managers, or to be exact, with Jeremy Clark and Troy Evans. The most interesting part is that the questions they answered were questions asked on the forums of Were-here.com

Interview with Flash Team Product Managers