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Iowa Court May Order Microsoft Refunds
dowobeha writes: "The Des Moines Register is reporting that thousands of Windows 98 users in Iowa could get $40 refunds from Microsoft. The Iowa Supreme Court has found the big boys from Redmond guilty of price fixing in violation of a 1976 Iowa law. According to the report, this is the first antitrust ruling in any state that favors 'indirect purchasers' (regular consumers who got Windows preinstalled on their newly purchased computer) rather than "direct purchasers" (manufacturers who license Windows to distribute on new machines)."
From:Jack Of All Lawfirms, on behalf of the Free Software Foundation
Re:Infringement of copyright under terms specified in GNU General Public License
Dear Sir/Madam:
This firm represents the Free Software Foundation of Cambridge, MA. It has come to our attention that your organization is violating copyrights retained by our client through the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL permits developers and companies the ability to freely publish program source code alongside execuatable computer applications. Other developers and companies may use code obtained under terms specified in the GPL to add enhancements or for use in their own programs, provided the program itself is made available under the terms of the GPL.
It has come to our attention that numerous computer applications (listed below) developed and distributed by your organization, Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, WA, is in violation of copyright and the GPL through the use of GPL licensed code developed and distributed by the Free Software Foundation. Specific violations are listed below.
Under terms of the GPL and terms listed in United States Copyright Law, this firm demands immediate cease and desist of distribution of the listed programs until the specific violations are removed. Alternatively, publishing of the products on your corporate Internet website, http://www.microsoft.com/, completed to abide by terms of the GPL will be acceptable.
It should be noted this notice is being served to the open and free source software community for their input into the matter.
Please expect immediate action following notice of this blantant copyright violation and blatant violation of the terms of the GPL.
Sincerely,
Jack
Attorney
Jack Of All Lawfirms
List of products (non-exhaustive):
List of violations (present in each product listed above):
If you hate Microsoft or not you must simply reject this assertion that there was a monoply. How many choices do we know about for operating systems? Were there individual components that you could buy to piece a computer together without those charges built in? Lets use some common sense here...
Now it's not that bad here...as long as you've got nothing else to compare it to.
"Secrecy is the Beginning of Tyranny" "No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law" -Robert Heinlein
you dont have to link to both the article and the parent site - people who want to visit the parent site can use the frickin backspace key
Life is all about your point of view.
This experience hapened last month. I walked into the local bar/dance hall and
seated mysef. I was expecting to have a regular Friday night but the fates
dealt me a new card that night. I was on my second round when a woman
approached my table and asked if the extra chair had been taken. I replied
that it wasn't and she proceeded to sit down. She had suicidal blonde hair and
a voluptous body. She ware a kneeskirt and fishnet stockings and to flatter
her large breasts she wore a low cut halter top that revealed a lot of
cleavage.Her eyes were the wildest shade of green I had ever seen in eyes,
very light and almost florescent but not quite.
We began to talk and continued a good conversation for about an hour when the
subject suddenly switched to sex. We discussed our personal sexual prefrences
with each other and were both getting quite horny. Another fifteen minutes of
steamy sex talk went by when I felt her leg sweep across myfoot. Thinking
nothing of it I contined talking. Then again I felt her leg but this time it
was rubbing up and down myshin. I got an instant hard-on and pushed my leg
out a bit more, so as she had plenty of room to work. We continued our
conversation as her leg rubbed higher and higher making it's way towards my
crotch aria. Then her foot raised and pushed against my groin. She then slid
it up and down in a very pleasing manner. After about two minutes of this she
stopped and got up.
"I'm going to freshen up." She said seductively with awink. I knew what she
wanted so after she had been gone acouple of seconds I got up too and went off
in the same direction. I was in the back halls of the pub looking around for
were she might be when I was pulled into a utility room. I couldn't see her
but I recognised the scent of her perfume.
We where locked in each others embrace and where taking full advantage of
this. I slid my hand down her back, across her butt, and down her leg until I
reached the bottom of her skirt. I slid my hand under and proceeded in rubbing
her thighs. They were bare so I deduced that she was wearing no underware. As
I did this she undid my pants and slid her hand under my boxer shorts. She
rubbed my dick in a pleasing fashion. I moved my hand on down until it came to
the outer fringes of pubic hair that covered her cunt. I ran my fingers
through it and came to her juicy cunt. I parted her vaganal lips with my
middle finger then slid it in. She began to move her hips up and down as she
made noises similar to purring. Her grip on my cock tightened as she was about
to orgasm. As she came the cunt juices flowed out in barrels covering my hand
and making a puddle on the floor beneath her. She began to stroke my cock
faster.
I slipped my fingers out of her honey pot and tried to dry them on my shirt.
She then slid down to her knees and placed her lips on my fifteen inch dick.
She slid her mouth over the head but wouldn't take it all in. It was like an
erotic torture. The after what seemed an eternity she took my beef in her
mouth. She managed to take the full fifteen inches in one swallow gagging just
abit. I felt the head of my dick going down her throat which was a lot like
entering a pussy. I came about a minute later after one of the best blowjobs
of my life. After I came she stood up in front of me. I could hear her heavy
breathing and could tell that she was still stimulated as was I. I proceeded
to lie her down on the utility cart and instructed her to lift her her skirt.
I heard her comply and I readied for the wildest fuck of my lifetime. I
stepped forward and entered her little piece of paradise with full thrust. She
screamed with pain as my fifteen inches stretched her out a bit, but after a
few more strokes the screams of pain turned to screams of pleasure and xtc. As
my dick pounded her cunt my hands found themselves fondling her big tits.
After a while longer she began to get more excited and started to thrust into
my cock enabling maximum penitration. On one particulairly deep thrust I felt
her vaginal walls clamp around my dick like a vice. When she began to climax
her back arched into the air and she began to make hissing noises. I wish the
lights could have been on so I could see those tit spinting out as she clawed
the air. Then her back droped and she relaxed. I had been effected by her
emotional climax and climaxed myself. I emptied load after load into her until
I thought if I keep it there much longer she'll explode. I withdrew my
semihard dick from her and I was still comeing.The white cream spilled from me
onto the ground. After a couple more seconds it stopped.
"Was it that good?" I asked.
"Even better." She replied as she panted for air.
After I cought my breath I switched on the light to see her fully dressed
sitting on a stool. My pants where still off and hereyes widened with
disbelief.
"So that's the thing that nearly ripped me in two. How long is it anyway." She
said.
"Fifteen inches." I replied. She was impressed.
"Well I should be going now." She said as she got up.
She walked over to me, bent over and planted a kiss on the head of my dick.
Her red lipstick had stained it a bit but here was a definite kiss mark right
on the head.
"He thanks you." I said. She looked up with a smile then kissed me
passionately on the lips. As we kissed she slipped a piece of paper into my
shirt pocket. I later found out that it had her name and telephone number on
it. We stopped the kiss and she walked out. I dressed and followed. When I
reached the bar room she was gone and I took my place at my table and ordered
round three.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I think the real question is, why would anyone over the age of 14, like myself, still read this site?
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Citizens of West Virginia will be awarded 40 ounces of moonshine for their next date with a sibling.
artical? what's an artical?
My other first post is car post.
Actually, for that matter, what is 'mentiones'?
My other first post is car post.
Le Mars? You poor bastard
"Secrecy is the Beginning of Tyranny" "No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law" -Robert Heinlein