Microsoft unit accuses Brazilian official of defamation
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft's Brazilian subsidiary has initiated legal proceedings against the Brazilian government official credited with developing the country's open-source strategy, saying he defamed the software giant in statements published in the magazine Carta Capital.
The filing, called a "Demand for Explanation," asks the court to order Amadeu to publish a retraction of his comments in Carta Capital, at his own expense.
In the article, written in Portuguese and made available in English on the Web log of Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig, at http://www.lessig.org/blog, Amadeu is quoted likening Microsoft's business practices to those of a "drug dealer" and accusing the company of a "strategy of fear, uncertainty and doubt."