Tuesday, June 24, 2003

What?

Some fool just got arrested for buying Microsoft software with employee discounts and then selling them to others to make a profit. Big deal. Given the astronomical retail prices of MS software, the guy probably bought a few copies of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Office XP to reach that $17 million amount. What IS notable is what happened to the previous guy who got caught:

"Microsoft hired investigators and put in updated systems to crack down on violations of internal policy after Daniel Feussner, a former Microsoft manager, was fired and arrested in December 2002 for allegedly funding a lavish lifestyle by selling discounted software for personal profit. Feussner later died in a local hospital after ingesting antifreeze."

Let me get this, the guy was smart enough to be a manager at Microsoft and yet he died from drinking antifreeze. Am I the only one that find the circumstances of his death suspicious?