Corporate espionage incident at Microsoft

thefickler writes: "Microsoft is taking a former employee, Miki Mullor, to court for taking a job at the company in order to steal information that would help with a patent infringement case against PC makers Dell, HP and Toshiba. And while it appears that Mullor did the wrong thing, some pundits are asking "if you believed that your patent had been infringed, wouldn't you be tempted to do the same thing"."

Two wrongs/...

[kwantar]

So doing the wrong thing against someone who has/is done/doing you wrong is right? There has to be some way to address this without resorting to illegal behavior...