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Microsoft Infringes on the World
So what happens when Microsoft has a copyright on every concievable word? They can argue that any software (games or production) or any OS that utilizes a word that you use in your domain name, including your name if it happens to match a character of theirs, is cybersquatting. And while Microsoft is universally recognized as the "Great Evil" this opens the gates (no pun intended) for any software company to do the same.
They already want to ruin the purity of technology with things like DRM (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/msft_our_drm_licensi.html)
I can only hope that Microsoft's (and the men who fuel it) greed swallows itself whole. Hey maybe when they run out of other people & companies they'll start suing themselves next.
Posted by: tfarrell67   Posted on: 08/23/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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It would seem as Microsofts Lawyer's  Intellihence | 08/22/06
Be careful, you're tapdancing on Sprint's slogan...  HypnoToad | 08/22/06
Microsoft puts cybersquatters on notice  Loverock Davidson | 08/22/06
Court of Public Opinion...  Chippolus | 08/22/06
Troll-la-la's  whisperycat | 08/23/06
A small nit to pick  wolf_z | 08/23/06
He was  Loverock Davidson | 08/23/06
BS  OldGreyGeek | 08/23/06
Just a comment:  OldGreyGeek | 08/23/06
XEROX: We make COPIERS, not COMPUTERS  Old Timer 8080 | 08/23/06
Spamigation  tic swayback | 08/22/06
Progress?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/22/06
No Ax, let's start a company  tic swayback | 08/22/06
automated  Chippolus | 08/22/06
Microsoft is a pirate as well  Netquest | 08/22/06
Wait a minute  drsparks@... | 08/22/06
Excel is a word MS used as a name  KC5RTY@... | 08/22/06
This reminds me of another company...  Raymond Danner | 08/22/06
dont' forget  nix_hed | 08/23/06
Wait a Minute  leewen@... | 08/23/06
Misappropriation of trademark  vulcan666 | 08/23/06
Nit picking again...  Disrupted_z | 08/23/06
Don't be disingenuous  vulcan666 | 08/24/06
Is Microsoft Bullying Critics?  rjriley@... | 08/22/06
Microsoft? Never. They're the nice kids on the block.  nix_hed | 08/23/06
A matter of today's paradigm?  Disrupted_z | 08/23/06
Microsoft Infringes on the World  tfarrell67 | 08/23/06
Microsoft is above the laws they seek to defend.  tfarrell67 | 08/23/06
Shakespeare: First, let's KILL THE LAWYERS  Old Timer 8080 | 08/23/06
How many of you got the Apple related sies  Boot_Agnostic | 08/24/06

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