RRoD Whistleblower Fired by Microsoft
The Xbox 360 has been criticized for being a bad piece of hardware due to the high volume of RRoDs users have had to face since the console’s launch. Microsoft has faced a lot of trouble over this, and who better to take out the company’s aggression than the person who let it all out: Robert Delaware.
Delaware, a temporary worker for a game testing firm contracted to Microsoft, contributed to an expose’ uncovering the system’s instability. He was fired by his supervising manager at Microsoft; the company is now taking legal action against the man for talking without permission to VentureBeat, the publication that broke the story on the system’s problems.
“He fully knew the risk he was taking, based on multiple conversations I had with him about using his name,” said Dean Takahashi, the article’s author. “Clearly, from a legalistic point of view, Delaware broke company policy and it is the company’s right to fire him.”