Andrew “Bunnie” Huang wrote a paper explaining a security flaw in Microsoft’s Xbox gaming system. Before presenting it, his advisors had legal concerns — in case Microsoft would wield the DMCA against them. But... they didn’t.
Microsoft told Huang and Abelson that while it might prefer that the paper not be published, it would be inappropriate to ask MIT to withhold the paper. […]
That’s, err, such a non-evil attitute to have. Yeesh, I’m completely surprised. Then again, I still won’t be upgrading to WinXP ;).
found this while searching for a comment from andy chadwick…
I’ve met this guy, incidentally. I played ultimate a few times with him.