# Microsoft Scandal!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311 "2002-12-12T19:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/1 "2002-12-12T19:33:59Z")
There’s never any gossip around here, so we’re eating this up. [Microsoft manager accused of $9 million fraud scheme](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134594397_microsoft12m.html) Here’s his Website: [http://home.attbi.com/~dfeussner/](http://home.attbi.com/~dfeussner/). Embezzling products? Not smart. Selling in parking lot of major shopping center NEXT TO REDMOND CAMPUS? Really not smart. Web site of ridiculously expensive spoils? Really, REALLY not smart. Publicly-writable Guest Book link on web site? PRICELESS. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/2 "2002-12-12T20:03:05Z")
Wow. > [@](#): > > The complaint alleges that between Dec. 3, 2001, and Nov. 25 this year, Feussner ordered or used his assistant and other employees, **including a high-school intern** … Yep, that’s the kind of work-study program I want my kids to be involved in… :rolleyes: I see they’re not charging him with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the ratbastard. At least there’s this: > [@](#): > > A Microsoft source said other employees named in the complaint are not suspected of acting illegally. They were apparently following orders from their supervisor, Feussner, to order the software. That’s some consolation, at least, that some high school kid isn’t going to have this following him around the rest of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/3 "2002-12-12T20:22:40Z")
Damn, it looks like his site is getting so much traffic that the guestbook and other areas are failing. I love that “THE GIRL” link is… not a link. Guess he’s holding space against hope, there. ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/4 "2002-12-12T20:49:18Z")
> [@](#): > > _from the linked article_ > \*\*in August, he put down $65,000 for a 51-foot yacht … His Web site lists the yacht at 58 feet. \*\* Any surprise he exaggerated this? ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/5 "2002-12-12T21:03:38Z")
Did anybody catch that he declared independence (from the U.S., I guess) and declared his property “deep in Bigfoot country” to be Bavarian soil? Cute pets, though. Anybody who loves animals can’t be all bad. It seems inconsistent with the rest of this dude’s personality that the pets are scrappy strays, not valuable purebreds. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/6 "2002-12-12T21:03:49Z")
WOW. Cars. Bikes. Beautiful house. Boat. Two silly benji-dogs and a kitty-cat. A website where you show off all of the stuff you own. _shakes head_ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/7 "2002-12-12T21:20:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Cute pets, though. Anybody who loves animals can’t be all bad. Not that this has anything to do with the OP, or really anything else, but Hitler was known to be kind to animals. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/8 "2002-12-12T22:18:37Z")
**Beadlin** , we especially love that the “THE GIRL” link is no link. I’m also trying to decide whether posts from his email address are really from him, or someone spoofing him. If they’re from him, I see he’s learned his lesson: > [@](#): > > You all are jealous, and you all suck. At least I got to drive a Ferrari and bang materialistic chicks. I won’t do 5 minutes of hard time, and will be thinking of you all while vacationing in Costa Rica. :rolleyes: I’m so amazed that he thought he could continue to send tons of copies of software from the IPO utility to his own address. This is used by the PSS folks to send a new bundle of diskettes if the customer says his are damaged. You simply cannot abuse it that way and expect to not get caught. At some point, when that system was audited, they surely would have found out that the same internal employee was ordering and shipping thousands of copies of completely different products to the same address…his address. Very clever, Mr. Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/9 "2002-12-12T22:45:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Not that this has anything to do with the OP, or really anything else, but Hitler was known to be kind to animals. Shit. I’ll keep that in mind in future, thanks. I don’t like the Microsoft guy in question, but I was willing to posit that he wasn’t “all bad”. I’m not willing to go in that direction with Hitler. My criteria now need severe revising. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/10 "2002-12-12T22:49:47Z")
His attitude, his chutzpah, his broken English–this putz is giving Eurotrash a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/11 "2002-12-13T06:08:13Z")
Well, Microsoft certainly did not hire him for his web developer abilities … ---
**Author:** ![evilhomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@evilhomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhomer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-scandal/142311/12 "2002-12-13T17:25:05Z")
Funny, but his web site really reminded me of the [Asian Prince](http://asianprince213.tripod.com/) web site. Lots of talk about his cars, bikes, boat, etc… Maybe he can have Asian Prince introduce him to some girls 😃