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Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates"
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in US Federal courts as part of an effort to stop those who continually pirate its software. The suits span 14 states and target people and businesses that have allegedly sold pirated copies of Microsoft software. Eight of the suits target companies that Microsoft refers to as 'repeat offender software pirates.' The eight firms had already been sued by Microsoft for selling counterfeit software."
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
Modern journalism teaches to ask "who's the Republican at fault, what can be done by Government to change it, when can we raise taxes to pay for it, where did Bush go wrong, and why didn't we listen to the left before now"
I swear I didn't know it was loaded...
The only reason Microsoft could have to do something Non-Evil would be to mask an even deeper and more nefarious purpose.
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I figured I could become a career pirate if I had a house boat...you know, sail around raping and pilaging yacht owners in the south pacific and eventually make it big by becoming friends with some pacific islanders who would band together and terrorize the sees around asia and india. I'd never have to worry about paying taxes or paying for anything since I could always sail away. Of course my wife mentioned we could be shot and of course attacked by pirates ourselves, but I'm sure my plan would work in the long run...
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Some of the programs targeted are referred to by the pirates as "repeat offender monopolist OSs".
... it's the year of Linux on the Desktop
Well if anyone knows what a repeat offender looks like it is Microsoft.
I could list the slashdot articles but it seems like there is a hard limit to the length of a comment
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Yep. Times are tough here. We can't even afford those fancy "Sea King" cellophane envelopes like they have in China to wrap our software. We have to write the torrent link on a post it and hand it to the guy after he gives us a five dollar bill. No, really.
Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? Microsoft has a history of taking other peoples code and selling it as their own. Sometimes not even bothering to change the comments in the code.
Linux is number 1, Vista is number 2! rah rah rah
Both of you get out, I'm trying to watch the television.
Err... You must be new here. Here all things must be free, in both meanings, or some of the vocal few will rage. They're quite obsessed and if you don't agree you are just asking to get flamed. I wish you luck.
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you... you nazi!
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.