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LindowsOS.com Email Lists Collected For MS Suit
Over at the LindowsOS website is a message from company chief Michael Robertson, who advises readers that, in the course of discovery for the ongoing lawsuit instigated by Microsoft against Lindows.com, the company was "compelled to disclose your email address to Microsoft." The email addresses aren't just those who have submitted product names with a connection to "Windows", but rather "everyone who had
submitted their address asking to be signed up for the Lindows.com mailing
list since we turned on the website," according to email from Robertson. He adds: "The information which Microsoft
received in the list was name, email address and physical address. It was
not just people that posted to our forum, but basically every address for
every person that we had collected." (Note: If you'd like to contribute to the list of "Windows" products, it would be helpful to include more than just a product name photocopy -- e.g. a company name, URL, or photocopied manual.).Update by HeUnique: And here is Michael Robertson comment.
be prepared to get Microsoft oriented spam!!!
Knowing that my name and address (YES, I am one of them) can be used by M$ marketing droids to fill up my snail mailbox and email one with Windows ads just pisses me off BIG TIME! Why did Lindows complies with this request? This is breaking the privacy policies. I hate this. Can't they do anything against the Beast? Don't tell me that MS had the right to do that. I can't believe it.
PPA, the girl next door.
-- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
Does anyone know if the name X Windows predates Microsoft Windows?
For every post, there is an equal and opposite re-post.
From Lindows.com
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Lindows.com may disclose personal information to third parties we engage to provide services that involve data processing on our behalf. Also, if some or all of the assets of Lindows.com are sold to a third party, such third party will be entitled to use the personal information disclosed by users of this Web Site, but only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Statement.
Now, someone explain. Does Microsoft help them with data processing? No. Have any assets of Lindows.com been sold to a third party? No. Therefore, they're in breach of their Privacy Policy, which is clearly stated here.
They do cover themselves by saying this: "Lindows.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy at this location." However, there's been no change to their privacy policy. Somebody made a boo-boo, it seems, because no amount of forcing should compel Lindows.com to break their own privacy contract with their customer/supporter.
Actually, reading it again, there's one place where the website COULD share your information: "We do not share your contact information with any third party without your consent, except to a court or governmental agency."
Then again, the Microsoft branch of our government probably didn't authorize this anyhow.
Judge: "And why do you want those names, addresses and email addresses?"
MS: "You see, we are sure, that alot of those people are possible terrorists. If they aren't, why would they be using a hacker operating system?"
Judge: "You have a point there. Where do I sign?"
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
Or to set a competitor up so that the best-for-the-shareholder path (hah!) is to be bought out by Microsoft (and often shut down, as was apparently the plan for Hancom Office).
Anyway, if LindowsOS hits market and works as advertised I'm sure a large market segment will buy your product just to spit in Microsoft's eye.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Yep. Just today I booted up linux, and started X-Windows, which of course is made by Microsuck, right???
Windows is a generic term for a type of GUI. Just because they claimed it doesn't mean they can change the english language.
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