Microsoft probably heard this in beta trials and has adopted the curious strategy of denigrating previous versions of Office as "too hard to find things" and having a "clunky" interface.
The last thing we sold you was junk, so now you must buy our new thing.
Sounds like great marketing to me!
No it isn't theft. Probably copyright infringement under our current draconian and broken copyright laws, but not theft.
I for one would prefer my child not to recieve morality lessons in school, especially ones containting brainwashing propaganda like this crap. I send my kid to school for academic advancement, not to be spoonfed some lobbiest's political agenda.
No artist profited from this. The money goes to fund more litigation. The RIAA will not be passing on any of the money from these suits to any artists.
Think about the logic in this. Guns can be used to kill other human beings. Yet there are no laws that make it legal to only manufacture "safe" guns (that can't kill people). Computers can be used to copy digital content. So should we have a law to make it legal only to manufactuer "safe" computers? This would seemingly elevate copying digital content to a level of importance greater than that of taking a human life.
By this logic the government should just lock us all up right now, because at any time one of us could do something illegal, like download an mp3 or kill somebody.
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Microsoft probably heard this in beta trials and has adopted the curious strategy of denigrating previous versions of Office as "too hard to find things" and having a "clunky" interface. The last thing we sold you was junk, so now you must buy our new thing. Sounds like great marketing to me!
No it isn't theft. Probably copyright infringement under our current draconian and broken copyright laws, but not theft. I for one would prefer my child not to recieve morality lessons in school, especially ones containting brainwashing propaganda like this crap. I send my kid to school for academic advancement, not to be spoonfed some lobbiest's political agenda.
No artist profited from this. The money goes to fund more litigation. The RIAA will not be passing on any of the money from these suits to any artists.
Going to California. Is there a California in Middle Earth?
Think about the logic in this. Guns can be used to kill other human beings. Yet there are no laws that make it legal to only manufacture "safe" guns (that can't kill people). Computers can be used to copy digital content. So should we have a law to make it legal only to manufactuer "safe" computers? This would seemingly elevate copying digital content to a level of importance greater than that of taking a human life.
By this logic the government should just lock us all up right now, because at any time one of us could do something illegal, like download an mp3 or kill somebody.