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Microsoft Agrees Settlement Over MikeRoweSoft.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all's-fair-in-love-and-war dept.

GillBates0 writes "CNN's reporting that Microsoft Corp has settled with Mike Rowe, persuading the teenager to give up his domain name in exchange for costs of changing the existing domain to a new Web site, Microsoft certification training, an Xbox, an invitation to a technology festival at Redmond and some other gifts. Includes a choice quote from Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler: 'We wanted to do this in a way that's going to foster his interest in technology'. Mike had received a 25-page letter from Microsoft informing him he was committing copyright infringement, and threatening legal action, as reported earlier on Slashdot."

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  1. Nothing more than a SELLOUT!! by TrollBridge · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I posted this on his Blog, and I'll say it again here. He did this with no other intention than to extort Microsoft for some free shit.

    Looks like he sold out for a pittance too. Course he's only 17; what could one expect from a greedy little urchin?

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  2. Re:XBOX?!?! by Larry*boy.3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    gamecube sucks, you fucker

  3. Re:XBOX?!?! by mrm677 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey asshole, I have friends and family who write console games for a living.

    Read my other reply in this thread.

  4. Re:Microsoft BUYS EM out by GeckoX · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're right.
    The damage done though is that nobody will learn this because Mike Rowe bent over and took it up the ass in exchange for an XBox and an MCSE...And to think we were supporting the little prick.

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  5. "foster"? by pherris · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler [said]: 'We wanted to do this in a way that's going to foster his interest in technology'.

    "You keep using that word -- I do not think it means what you think it means"

    foster
    tr.v. fostered, fostering, fosters
    1. To beat the shit out of a kid with a group of dirtbag lawyers that would step on their own mother for dollar to the point the victim is too scared to touch anything more advance than a potter's wheel.

    In closing: fuck you M$ and the horse you road in on.

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  6. Fark Off!! by stryc9 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Come on... you think he didnt have Microsoft's name in mind when he named his site? There is no 'soft' involved in his business. Web design is not 'software'!! Ok.. maybe thats argueable... but COME ON!!! You *really* think that if MS didnt exist he would have picked that name? He did this on purpose to get attention and money, and it looks like he got both.

    I dont think that he should have gotten anything for being a sneaky, coniving fu%*tard. In fact, being such a natural asshat he should have got payed training to be a fricking lawyer not an MCSE.

    Oh well... i guess we'll all get our last laugh when he actually tries to get a job with his MCSE.

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