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Japanese Government Raids Microsoft Offices
Nakito writes "According to an article at the financial news site Bloomberg, Microsoft's Tokyo office was raided by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which is investigating whether the world's largest software maker violated the country's anti-monopoly law." Other readers note a AP/Yahoo story claiming: "A commission official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said Microsoft Japan is suspected of attaching improper restrictive conditions when signing software deals with Japanese personal computer manufacturers, such as requiring that Japanese companies allow infringement of their patents."
Should we expect eminent post of the Japanese version of Windows XP source code now?
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Just shocking. Never saw that coming *at all*.
"IT Department of Japanese Government Raided by BSA"
Call up the troops! It's Pearl Harbor all over again!
Wow i hope they make a Anime about the raid!... .. Giant Robots!!
Officer: Stop!
M$: no!
Officer: So, Be it.. we must Kungfoo Figh!...
Then out of no where
IAALS.
What happened to the good old days when we had RIAA and SCO jokes to space out the Microsoft ones?
The United States couldn't finish the Microsoft case during the Clinton administration, but it may be the Japanese that cause Microsoft to adopt tactics conducive to competition.
They gave us anime, lots of neat consumer electronics, and Microsoft a slap upside the head. Japan gets two thumbs up from me.
May we never see th
Shouldn't it be:
....
In A.D. 2004
War was beginning.
NEC: What happen ?
Dell: Somebody set up us the contract.
Dell: We get signal.
NEC: What !
Dell: Main screen turn on.
NEC: It's You !!
Microsoft: How are you gentlemen !!
Microsoft: All your patent are belong to us.
Microsoft: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
NEC: What you say !!
Microsoft: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Microsoft: HA HA HA HA
Japan: Take off every 'cop' !!
Japan: You know what you doing.
Japan: Move 'cop'.
Japan: For great justice.
Microsoft Island.
A small island, in international waters, where Microsoft can conspir... err, schem... err, work... without fear of government raids.
C'mon. You just know they're thinking about it...
I hope they show a Japanese official on C-Span trying to pronounce "Ballmer"
It's high time Japan start addressing unfair American trade practices. Millions of Japanese jobs have been lost to American corporations taking advantage of lax trade laws while the xenophobic American populace refuses to buy anything built by the "gaijins".
Oh wait, I think I have that backwards.
Yup - that's the way it went for Al Capone too. They finally get Bill Gates for tax evasion and he'll have to move to Florida.
From my knowledge of Asian culture, I believe these are the most likely scenarios:
....never mind.
1) Microsoft had discovered an ancient form of super-Karate, and was training hordes of minions in the art, with plans to take over the world. But, a lone anti-trust agent, has discovered a long lost form of Karate that is even more powerful. He, a few trusty sidekicks with little fighting experience, and a girl with an unusual aptitude for fighting, raid Microsoft and defeat the faceless hordes. Finally Steve Ballmer himself leaps into the fray for a one-on-one fight to the death with the hero. Ballmer is defeated, and begs to be spared. The girl leaps in to finish him, but the hero holds her back, showing mercy to Ballmer. As the hero and heroine walk away, Ballmer leaps at them with a knife, and the hero sidesteps, and cuts Ballmer in half.
2) Microsoft is fashioning a set of super swords that, if combined, will have the power to
While I've worked for MS before and may again I always find their street address rather funny/ironic.
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
The Japanese arm of the BSA was part of the RAID, and found many unlicensed copies MS Office and Windows XP. When the head BSA agent called in the offense to the MS Piracy hotline from one of the office phones, the receptionist looked at the caller ID and said, "you make the software, you can't turn yourself in, you idiot!", and hung up.
I can't afford a sig!
Balmmer: Oh no. Japanese Government set us up the bomb...
You do the rest...
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Remember The Madness of King George a few years back? The original title was The Madness of King George III but they thought that American audiences would want to know where parts I and II were playing at...
(ducks)
See it here.
Chances are the Japanese government warned them, but Microsoft thought the email with the attachment full of legalese was either spam or yet another trojan, and deleted it without opening. Seriously, who opens attachments you weren't expecting anyhow?
All your base are belong to Microsoftu, I mean us!
Japan is FreeBSD country.
Do you think they will run the company and increase shareholder's happiness by having 54 billion karma points in the bank instead of 54 billion dollars?
Shareholder #666: "What's a protocol?"
Shareholder #666': "Dunno. Ran over a cat today, but it's ok since my MSFT stock went up."
Face it: Bill Gate's dropped out of Harvard to get farking rich using technology. There is no passion or philanthropic view in software for that man or the company he created.
And my post is just as obvious.
Damn! Someone put Vicks in your vaseline or something?
Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
I got modded -1 on Slashdot.jp for making one little joke about the XBOX taking over Japan.
Hidoi.
Interactive Visual Medical Dictionary
I guess they could make it so that extensions denoting executables are never hidden. That would be a start.
But, the saying goes: "As soon as you idiot-proof something, they will build a better idiot." ;-)
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
...what Open Source can do for you: Ask what you can do for Open Source.
Apologies to JFK, but while it's great that you're making money from Open Source software, what have you put back into it? Donations, bug reports, anything? If not, that's known in some circles as leeching.
Free Software is free, true, but it doesn't just fall from the sky. It takes a lot of work from a lot of people, so hopefully businessmen such as yourself see the responsibility to replenish the pool, not just a resource to exploit.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
Okay MS, let's see how you like it!
"This is a bust. Step awaay from your keyboards. NOW!"
Your hot_sex.jpg.exe wasn't a link. Could you repost because the URL got lost... please? I clicked on it several times, but alas, it was simply text.
Until Japan utters these famous words again?
"I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant"
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
Anonymous sources have supplied an unconfirmed statement that the official's name is "Kilroy". This "Kilroy" is rumored to be the recipient of intelligence enhancing implants designed by IBM. This unsubstantiated report was lent minor credence when the official in question walked away from the podium chanting, "Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto" repeatedly.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.