More crap from Microsoft

[insertwackynamehere]

What the heck is this? http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/index.html

[Quast]

Read about this on fark last week. Very interesting nonetheless. I'm no lawyer, so I don't know much about copyright laws. It's sound-a-like, but "he though it would be funny to put 'soft' at the end". The website is just a bunch of forums.

[Tobester]

Fucking gay.

[Kaiser]

omg. I am going to change my nsme to kaisersoft.

[Gokuma]

I'm going to sue gokuma.com for copyright infringement and improperly representing my gonads.

[Tyockell]

lol deffinatly fucking gay.

[Manc]

The article said:
He wrote back asking to be compensated for giving up his name. Microsoft's lawyers offered him $10 in U.S. funds.

Hahahaha

Yay for "bill gates" for giving so generously. Seriously, they could have at least offered the standard highball cost of a yearly domain registration ($35).

[Stealthy Ivan]

I cant wait to see the day the microsoft dies!!! Its gonna be like the fall of Rome... Hmm, If I was that kid I would tell Macrofags to kiss my ass, and try to come find me mother fuckers!

[Sharessa]

Gokuma said:

I'm going to sue gokuma.com for copyright infringement and improperly representing my gonads.

Heh...I should sue Danarchy.net for stealing my name. Of course, their website has been down for over a year, so I guess it's all good.

[Kristian Ronge]

.. And I should sue this german industrial construction company. ;-)

[Fredrik]

Maybe Gates was behind shutting down Goatse.

[læmænt]

Such insolence! I hope Microsoft sues him and he goes to jail.

[NiGHTMARE]

For some reason I read that as "I hope he sues Microsoft and they go to jail." :P

I would agree with what I initially thought you said, but you can't sue someone and have them end up imprisoned for it :)

[fraggle]

I'm going to sue... oh wait

[Fredrik]

fraggle said:

I'm going to sue... oh wait

Heh.

And where's Linguica?

[Piece_O_Mind]

Now Spike Lee has a playmate :D

[Sephiroth]

why dont they sue who ever is makeing lindows?

moronsoft is getting more lamer every second. i am waiting for the day terrorist attack him, or someone shoots him. i am sure he has some real enemies out there

[fraggle]

Sephiroth said:

why dont they sue who ever is makeing lindows?

Uh, they are.

[Sephiroth]

ok, well i dont fallow micronuts.

i wonder if they have tried to sue makers of linux and unix. i know MAC, back in the day, tried to sue them.

by the way MAC turned 20 last week.

[Arioch]

retards

[fraggle]

Yeah, over a bullshit "Look and Feel" copyright case which they quite rightly lost.

Microsoft claiming a trademark on "Windows" is pretty stupid however, given that "window" is a generic term, which arent supposed to be possible to copyright.

[Sharessa]

I heard the kid settled the suit for an X-Box. I'm to lazy to find an article on it though.

[Job]

Danarchy said:

I heard the kid settled the suit for an X-Box. I'm to lazy to find an article on it though.

I-R-O-N-Y

[gatewatcher]

Heh, classic.

[Grimm]

I never had issues with Microsoft until now . . .

[Bucket]

I don't know if you guys all remember the Al Franken Story...

He's the actor/political satirist who wrote a book call "Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look at The Right". FOX News sued him over use of the phrase "Fair And Balanced".

How did he respond? With a countersuit. FOX is a subsidiary of NBC, on which he worked as a cast member of Saturday Night Live. He sued for "defamation of character", explaining that his popular character on the show, Stuart Smalley depicted him in a negative light. He said "Stuart was portrayed as a helpful, understanding counselor, while in real life I'm an asshole." FOX News dropped the suit.

So I guess now it's plausible to sue over copyrighted phrases and words, even though they may appear in day-to-day conversation. I just hope the porn business doesn't get into this habit, or I may never be able to swear in public again.

[Grimm]

That book sounds retarded.

[Piece_O_Mind]

Grimm said:

I never had issues with Microsoft until now . . .

Just goes to show how much of a MS slave you were until now.

[Sharessa]

Grimm said:

That book sounds retarded.

That book sounds awesome. Though I still haven't read "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot". Al Franken owns.

[darknation]

Numbermind said:

I just hope the porn business doesn't get into this habit, or I may never be able to swear in public again.

The porn industry has been instrumental in defending your freedom of speech rights in court actually.