Only 90% of the look and feel and 80% of the code are copied! What’s starting as a PR fiasco could easily end up turning into a legal nightmare as Microsoft China has been accused of ripping off the code and design of social network timeline Plurk for their own Juku service. While Plurk is quite popular in Taiwan and other countries in the Asia Pacific region it happens to be blocked in China

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Plurk get’s some shanzhai PR from Microsoft

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