For anyone attending Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto this week, as I did, it was hard to miss the local controversy surrounding a decision to let six government workers off the hook after their workplace computers were discovered to contain vast amounts of very nasty smut. It was a front page story for two days running in The Globe and Mail newspaper and local TV covered it, too. As the story goes, an arbitrator concluded that the government went too far in dismissing the workers in Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources, who were deemed the worst offenders among 90 employees who stored large amounts of sexually explicit material or distributed it. The six workers have to be rehired the arbitrator says, although he has not yet given an explanation for his decision.

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