Owners of Taiwanese Plurk microblog site have not decided yet whether and how to respond to cases of theft of code made by the company, which was commissioned by Microsoft to build another microblog service.

While Microsoft took upon himself the full responsibility, but apparently does not want to bear the legal consequences of this incident. According to the message given out Plurk site owners are wondering what legal action in this situation should take.
Chinese Microsoft's MSN division in November, China has launched a beta phase Juku microblog service. Site owners have discovered, and proved that at least 80 percent of code was stolen Juku, and between the two web services, there is quite a striking similarity. As a consequence, Microsoft has withdrawn from the web Juku.

Plurk but now finds that in this case it was not just about simply copying the code. Much work was necessary to analyze and re-code and user interface - that is, consciously copy service Plurk. This product was later put into public use with the involvement of PR-powerful force in the Microsoft.

In turn, Plurk is a small, existing for two years the company has no marketing department, which mainly focuses on the development of their product. Plurk co-founder Alvin Woon said that he alone prepared the message was published. Some parts of the source code Plurk, if available, are published as Open Source to other young companies could benefit from it and that it is also helpful for others to solve problems.