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“They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect
sometime in the next decade.”
--Bill Gates
Microsoft wins piracy lawsuit
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| China's Do-It-Yourself personal computer market has proven a chronic headache
| for Microsoft Corp, which is continually battling the use of pirated
| software.
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| But the US-based software giant won a skirmish this month, when a Beijing
| court ruled against a major custom PC dealer accused of pre-installing
| pirated Microsoft Windows and Office software.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-07/20/content_8449721.htm
Microsoft business model 2.0:
- - Sue 'addicted' people.
- - Racketeering against users and vendors of 'the other OS'.
Related:
[Mark Shuttleworth Interview]
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| Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won't
| say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: "It's an
| unsafe neighbourhood, why don't you pay me 20 bucks and I'll make
| sure you're okay," that's illegal. It's racketeering. What Microsoft
| is doing with intellectual property is exactly the same. It's a great
| company and I have great admiration for it, but this was not a
| well considered position.
|
| So you wouldn't do a deal?
|
| No, absolutely not. But the time will come when the folks at
| Microsoft who have a clear vision for the company as a participant
| in this community, rather than as a hostile antagonist, will win.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672
Court: Microsoft, Best Buy must stand trial for racketeering
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| That was all done without his knowledge or agreement, he
| says.
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| A similar incident happened to the buyer of a cell phone at a
| Reno Best Buy store, the case says. Microsoft withdrew monthly
| MSN payments from her debit card account for 17 months withouth
| er knowledge or permission, the allegations say.
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http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=5059
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