After all this time it had to happen to them...
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Microsoft Cracked
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I believe this is a good thing. FINALLY Microsoft is paying for what we have been paying in their faulty bugs and crappy code.
Maybe now they will serve out propoer software
About a year and a half ago, I met with this person whom had an idea for doing a show that looks like the NY CyberSuds. I had just recently returned from one and had the entire concept on one hand and the how to do it in the other. A friend in common presented us, and so a "business" relationship began. During that first meeting I slapped accross the table a Non Disclosure Agreement, a friend of mine who is a lawyer in New York had made for me, while I was ain the city some time ago.
This person signed the NDA and off we started working on our ideas of how to create a show like what we had in mind here in Puerto Rico. We almost had it going, till sometime January 2000, he decided to skip the project and leave. He sent me an e-mail where he clearly stated that neither him nor his company, would like to continue with the project and so he leaved me to it completely. He also signed another non-disclosure agreement, and sent me all the project info we had gathered during the time being.
Well that kind of pissed me off, since the production shop I run doesn't specializes in creating technology events. We are a small internet production shop with 4 people working on it. His company does technology marketing and has an employee base of 18 - 25 people. So in sense I would keep doing the activity but it would take a long time to produce.
My company registered the concept into the department of state. And my company went on to code the website etc... we were going to start doing what we know how to do best and then as we gathered publicity we would start planning the activity.
It is not until I attend a Microsoft Technet meeting, where I am speaking to some Compaq people, that I begin explaining to them the concept of the show, and how it would be nice if compaq would participate on it. The compaq guy turns around and tells me "Oh so you are copying your idea from (I will omit the name, but we will call him Mike), Mike's E-Nights? Well it sounds good but Mike is already doing it..."
When I returned home I called Mike (the person whom I had originally made the idea of the e-nights) and he told me that he had meant to call me, that infact he had given the order to call me so I could participate in the production of the event as a co-producer. He told me also that to smoothen this error he would give me a year around VIP pass so I could drink and have fun at the show, etc. I was furious because this show was also my idea. Plus he had signed an NDA that among it's clauses it says that he cannot produce the content or similarities of this show for 5 years from the time the signing went on.
Well I take this cooly... I have his signature in the NDA's so I will just ask a meeting with him. I confronted him with a letter sent to him through e-mail, asking him to sit down with me and talk about this like the "friends" we were supposed to be. I also told him that if we couldn't get anything done in a friendly way that I would not hesitate to find some legal representation on this matter to solve it because I found it very unfair for him to be profiting out of something that both he and I created... specially when he was the one to pull off the activity we had in the first place.
How can I work this? Do I have a point or does a company or a person have the right to steal a project and carry it on without compensating the other side?
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This person signed the NDA and off we started working on our ideas of how to create a show like what we had in mind here in Puerto Rico. We almost had it going, till sometime January 2000, he decided to skip the project and leave. He sent me an e-mail where he clearly stated that neither him nor his company, would like to continue with the project and so he leaved me to it completely. He also signed another non-disclosure agreement, and sent me all the project info we had gathered during the time being.
Well that kind of pissed me off, since the production shop I run doesn't specializes in creating technology events. We are a small internet production shop with 4 people working on it. His company does technology marketing and has an employee base of 18 - 25 people. So in sense I would keep doing the activity but it would take a long time to produce.
My company registered the concept into the department of state. And my company went on to code the website etc... we were going to start doing what we know how to do best and then as we gathered publicity we would start planning the activity.
It is not until I attend a Microsoft Technet meeting, where I am speaking to some Compaq people, that I begin explaining to them the concept of the show, and how it would be nice if compaq would participate on it. The compaq guy turns around and tells me "Oh so you are copying your idea from (I will omit the name, but we will call him Mike), Mike's E-Nights? Well it sounds good but Mike is already doing it..."
When I returned home I called Mike (the person whom I had originally made the idea of the e-nights) and he told me that he had meant to call me, that infact he had given the order to call me so I could participate in the production of the event as a co-producer. He told me also that to smoothen this error he would give me a year around VIP pass so I could drink and have fun at the show, etc. I was furious because this show was also my idea. Plus he had signed an NDA that among it's clauses it says that he cannot produce the content or similarities of this show for 5 years from the time the signing went on.
Well I take this cooly... I have his signature in the NDA's so I will just ask a meeting with him. I confronted him with a letter sent to him through e-mail, asking him to sit down with me and talk about this like the "friends" we were supposed to be. I also told him that if we couldn't get anything done in a friendly way that I would not hesitate to find some legal representation on this matter to solve it because I found it very unfair for him to be profiting out of something that both he and I created... specially when he was the one to pull off the activity we had in the first place.
How can I work this? Do I have a point or does a company or a person have the right to steal a project and carry it on without compensating the other side?
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