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Comments · 10

  1. Re:Go Microsoft! by ePhil_One · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft to Sue Cybersquatters
    Squatters need sued, but will they go after parody sites as well and call them squatters?

    If they could be interpreted as Cybersquatting, yes. If you host your parody site at http://user.aol.com/~Coward/MSSucks.html; no. http://www.microshaft.com/ might have an issue (clearly parody, but only a 2 letter delta). http://www.microsoftsucks.com/ might get a letter, but clearly has a legitimate defense.

  2. They haven't already? by StarManta.Mini · · Score: 1 · on Company Name in URL Not Copyright Infringement

    Ahem.

  3. Re:Funding.... by JuggleGeek · · Score: 1 · on When Think Tanks Attack
    If someone put out an advert saying "Microsoft Windows sucks" you can bet Microsoft would sue.

    That would seem to be untrue. Evidence : microsoftsucks.com

  4. Re:What the net was by Jaysyn · · Score: 1 · on Freenet Project More Stable, In Need

    Nope, it's still there.

    Jaysyn

  5. Re:What the net was by interiot · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Freenet Project More Stable, In Need

    This site and this one seem to be doing just fine. (though that second one is almost blatant trademark infringement, one would think...)

  6. NASA wants to create excitement by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10
    Personally, I believe that NASA is going to "throw away" this Pioneer 10 because of all the problems they've been having. Now, they'll have to convince Congress and the people of the United States that space exploration is a worthwhile objective and that they should continue to receive infinity dollars and forty five cents every year to continue the space program. As part of that process, and in order to help convince the aforementioned folks that they should continue to receive the aforementioned dinero (that's French for money), they're going to close down projects that have yielded little or no excitement over the past few years, potentially putting more resources, as well as efforts, into performing objectives that do create excitement among the American people.

    This post is not off topic, I swear to Dios. The second paragraph contains a bunch of shit, but the first contains useful information. The first paragraph begins here: I just love it when some huge Microsoft ad comes up when I load up a story. Astute readers probably know that I hate Microsoft's guts and that I firmly believe that everything they are/sell/do/say is pure garbage. So when I see one of their ads on Slashdot, I click on it and when their ugly webpage finishes to load, I simply hit the 'back' button. I never look at what they're advertising. Even if I did, I would certainly not be interested in it, whatever it is, because I use products that are in every way superior to theirs. Products like six different distributions of Linux, all three BSDs, versions of BeOS ranging from 3 to 5 (because it's still useful), QNX, IRIX and HP-UX. There were others, but I reduced the list of operating systems to the ones listed here. So Microsoft has to pay for another click that led them nowhere. And I wasted some of their bandwidth. These two facts make me feel good about myself and about who I am. I firmly believe that causing them additional expenses such as the one described herein is a good way to increase one's self esteem (not that I need to do so, what with the 6 different girlfriends I have that don't know about each other, and would probably still love/screw me if they knew, since I am such a studmuffin, so yeah, I have lots of self esteem... girls love guys that troll Slashdot).Now, to what I was going to say about this article before that stupid ad got in my way... Oh, that was in the first paragraph... sorry, forgot.

    Actually, I was going to stop here but I think I'll add more...

    This post has been moderated -9: Sewage.

  7. Re:How to say "Windows" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MS Asking Makers of 'Windows' Software To Rename

    I guess some people http://www.microsoftsucks.com/ are independent thinkers when it comes to interpretation of such suggestions.

  8. small victory by kurt1992 · · Score: 4 · on "sucks".com Sites Win Legal Victory
    Though this is one minor victory, the gist of the CNET article is simple, and we've know it for a while: big business is going to send in the lawyers to squelch free speech, and it is usually going to win. After all, the mainstream media has already been bought out. And the average idiot on AOL is not a threat, so the *sucks\.[org|net|com] crowd is on the most wanted list.

    Saying "McDonalds sucks" or "GM sucks" is free speech. That's all there is to it. And all this talk about extortion and why or why not someone owns a domain is nonsense. If these corporate retards had understood the internet instead of just spending the late 80s/early 90s getting drunk at the golf course, this wouldn't be an issue in the first place.

    GM/Disney/AOLTW/Fox aka Murdock now control the media. The last vestige of free speech is the net, which is exactly the reason it is under attack. Its kind of shocking to read wishy-washy posts on this issue on slashdot. Imagine if this site were moderated by AOL or MSN.

    ps, *nix rules, microsoftsucks.com

  9. Related sites by Animats · · Score: 3 · on 2600 v. Ford Motors
    There's already Sucks.com, which is pointed to by gmsucks.com. (They also have intelsucks.com, microsoftsucks.com, and a number of others, all of which point to sucks.com. Nobody seems overly excited about that.

    The wierd thing here is that Ford is sueing, not GM. GM may have a case, because something using their trademark is being redirected to a competitor. It's hard to see how Ford can show injury. What's the legal theory?

  10. Re:Way to go Linus!!! by Robert+S+Gormley · · Score: 2 · on Linus Explains Linux Trademark Issues
    First, imagine some company hostile to Linux, like Microsoft decides to take on a bunch of domain names. Like LinuxSupport.com, LinuxQuestions.com, LinuxHelp.com. Then every one of these sites simple redirects to the Microsoft pages instructing people how to remove Linux and install Windows 2000. Or, worse they could have a bunch of semi-informative, FUD enriched site that tried to pass itself off as a "REAL" Linux site.

    Kinda like http://www.microsoftsucks.com which links to linux.org?