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Microsoft Agrees Settlement Over MikeRoweSoft.com

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. Dupe! by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think. Wasn't this in a slashback?

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  2. What if FOX did this? by phaetonic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I remember an episode on the simpsons where they would make fun of brands like:

    Sorny
    Panaphonic
    Magnetbox

    Yet nothing happened to fox.

  3. Re:XBOX?!?! by BTWR · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, and accoding to Gamespot (and IGN), Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart Double Dash both SUCKED.

    (shows what they know...)

  4. Re:XBOX?!?! by hesiod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > if an artist draws the exact same picture multiple times using different paints, then the superior picture will be the one that uses the superior paints.

    No, not at all. The superior picture will be the one that looks the best with the given paint. Each kind of paint (console) has advantages & disadvantages -- there is no perfect paint, because they have different attributes which make them all good. Except Sega brand paint, which skipped the middle man and started selling paintings directly and gave up on the paint.

  5. Re:XBOX?!?! by pantycrickets · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, not at all. The superior picture will be the one that looks the best with the given paint. Each kind of paint (console) has advantages & disadvantages -- there is no perfect paint, because they have different attributes which make them all good.

    Sony must use some very jaggy paint.

  6. Re:Grammar Nazi strikes again! by eclectro · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I think that at this point, this is a sign that Dean has failed it.

    Too bad, I would have enjoyed seeing him body slam Dubya WWE style.

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  7. Re:XBOX?!?! by CFTM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Save MAYBE Zelda, Metroid and Mario Kart, I wouldn't waste my time on the Gamecube. I hate the bloody controller. They *ALMOST* got me to buy one of those things when they were offering the original NES Zelda's that could play on the gamecube for $99 but I decided a PS/2 and a XBOX were enough, particularly because I never really play either of them anymore.

  8. Re:THAT DOESN'T MATTER MUCH by krisp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which DVD players have samba network support?

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