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Faking a Company
gambit3 writes "What happens when pirating a movie, an application, or a game is not enough for you? Well, you take the next step and pirate a whole company. It happened to Japanese electronics giant NEC. Counterfeiters had set up what amounted to a parallel NEC brand with links to a network of more than 50 electronics factories in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan."
All I can say is, wow, that is incredibly cool! What moxy! What an idea!
These guys should get a criminal Nobel or something!
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
... so why does NEC seem so upset?
The misuse of the word piracy gives all us true pirates a bad name. Piracy doesn't even have to take place on the high seas anymore. Damn all sweet water pirates to hell!
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This is exactly what Microsoft did to IBM's PC software division in the 80's!
I always knew there was *something* underhanded there, but couldn't put my finger on it.... ^_^ Contract, schwantract.... No company, not even IBM, could have been that stupid. It was all just "Corporation Piracy".
It all makes sense... DOS, CP/M, and, of course, once MS had made enough money from the theft they started taking less and less of IBM's assest - with the last partial theft in the Windows 95 + OS/2 Warp releases... from there, Microsoft could just keep heaping "original" code onto the DOS codebase it secreted away.
Ahhh, all is right in the world when everything finally falls into place!
(Disclaimer: This is a joke. Sarcasm. Humor, people. We all know the real facts..... or do we???)
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I've been faking being an employee for years :o)
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It was already done, here, in the US: it was called "Enron".
How do we know the reporters were getting comments from the real NEC executives?
So there is a use for the MikeRoweSoft name after all!
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I have ever seen. The guys should be shot.
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And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
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...there's a place near here that's doing the same thing with a whole industry/product line - couterfeit food. Luckily, they're easy to spot, all being labelled with a big bright yellow M,...
the joke will be on him. I owned one of those, one of the poorest designs/interfaces I have ever seen.
It's ok. We have fake CEOs, and CEO/CFOs who make fake profits.
That's nothing, right now we have a dictator faking a democracy in the US. Beat that pirates!
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If only you could get someone to pirate just the technical support part of your company!
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