An employee that went on record about the Xbox 360's failure rate has been summarily terminated by Microsoft, Dean Takahashi revealed. GameDaily has the story.
Robert Delaware, who was a contract employee that served as a game tester, has indeed been let go, and his manager told him it was because he spoke on the record without permission to Takahashi. Furthermore, Delaware could be facing civil charges from his former employer. "I don't regret it," he told VentureBeat. "I'll fight it. If they want to come after me, bring it on."
