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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."
Avast, me hearties!
We have a winner...it took only 4 comments for some ass clown to make a negative statement about Microsoft. While 4 is good it's actually kind of slow for \.
Mod this funny, I chuckled. And guffawed.
Oh great, do you have a reasonable alternative to Mac Mini to recommend me? I was thinking lately about buying such a nice toy, but could not find anything similar that would be cheaper. (Less noise, less heat... BTW, /me is a Linux user. No Apple faboyism here, just asking...)
Ezekiel 23:20
Wow. After reading the headline, I thought that Microsoft was actually going to fight against the companies that steal their employee's careers by refusing to hire them except as 'temporaries'. Companies like Microsoft and Intel only hire the top graduates of the best universities. Everyone else that does all the real grunt work in these companies is 'hired' on a six-month contract as a 'temporary'. This allows Microsoft and Intel to avoid paying benefits and health insurance to all the people who work for them (and create their profits).
Please don't tell me that this isn't so. Half the people in the electronics industry in Seattle and Portland Oregon deal with this situation on a daily basis. And please spare me the horseshit about how you are in the top ten percent of the class of MIT or IIT and therefore you don't have to worry about this problem, because you are so much superior to the rest of us. There are so many of the 'rest of us' that they haven't gotten around to you yet. Or you hop between companies so often that you're still flying high solely on the basis of your transcript. That will change.
So I thought at first that Microsoft was going to make a serious commitment to honor the basic social contract between companies and employees: if you make a serious commitment to us then we will make a serious commitment to you and we will all prosper together. That was the IBM way. But Microsoft has nothing but contempt for IBM and its tried-and-true methods of doing business. So the chances are good that if you work 'for' Microsoft then you are a perma-temp. And it's not going to change any time soon.
Sucka!
But did you chortle???
Oh come on flamebait? Microsoft is a repeat offender. Funny maybe, Flamebait hardly
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