Microsoft may be guilty of Piracy!!!

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:31 am

Ex-rock band drummer sues Microsoft over copyright

The former drummer for the defunct rock band Ink & Dagger has filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., alleging that the company improperly included three of the band's songs in the "Amped" snowboarding video game for the Xbox console. In a court filing in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, the drummer, Ryan McLaughlin, says he is "outraged that my artistic integrity has been so brazenly violated."

Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said the company is reviewing the situation. "Microsoft respects intellectual-property rights and enters into licensing agreements for music and media in our games and other products," Evans said

See also http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27290

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:51 am

You've got slammers on your topic like that's news. Microsoft wrote the book on piracy with Stacker technology, Norton, DEC, it goes on and on. They were almost founded on it. They're just big enough to absorb the hits.

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:58 am

Your obviously correct...

http://www.aaxnet.com/topics/msinc.html#origin

They really shouldn't be in business.

-Anthony

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:08 am

1982 - Digital Research sues Microsoft and IBM - Wins - . It was obvious MS-DOS and its PC-DOS variant were simply rip- offs of Digital Research's CP/M operating system. It remained only to prove it contained DR code. DR's Gary Kildall sat down at an IBM PC supplied by IBM and, using a secret code, got it to pop up a Digital Research copyright notice.

I LOVE this part!!! Gates is as stupid as he is dishonest. He couldn't find that and remove it??? What a retard!

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:16 am

I thought this bit was quite funny:

Tired of sabotaging Borland's products by continuously changing Windows and demanding concessions for certain necessary licenses, Microsoft started raiding Borland for its key development personnel, offering signing bonuses exceeding a million dollars. Upon hiring, some of these persons were simply sent on extended vacation.

How cheeky is Microsoft?

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:23 am

I need one of those vacations...

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:04 am

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:10 am

netmaestro wrote:
1982 - Digital Research sues Microsoft and IBM - Wins - . It was obvious MS-DOS and its PC-DOS variant were simply rip- offs of Digital Research's CP/M operating system. It remained only to prove it contained DR code. DR's Gary Kildall sat down at an IBM PC supplied by IBM and, using a secret code, got it to pop up a Digital Research copyright notice.
I LOVE this part!!! Gates is as stupid as he is dishonest. He couldn't find that and remove it??? What a retard!

I'll guess Digital Research where clever enough to hide it in some smart way - or Gates is really stupid... *lol*

It seems like "if Bill" wants something, he'll get it... no matter what!

[EDIT]

Did you read this?

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,3902 ... 092,00.htm

All Microsoft backups where gone?!?!

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:27 am

Read the story about Gary Kildall, makes me wonder... To bad he is gone.

http://www.digitalresearch.biz/Gary.Kildall.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
http://www.cadigital.com/kildall.htm
http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/kildall.htm
http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/eulogy.htm

From Digital Research "In Memory",

"Gary never wanted to file suit against Microsoft because he always believed that in the end excellence in programming would win in the marketplace."

What a hero!!! Naive, but heroic!!

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:48 pm

Kildall died in 1994 of uncertain causes in Monterey, California at the age of 52.

Strange

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Post by **Dare2** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:06 pm

Those were interesting times.

"Little" (as it was then) Microsoft appeared to stand up to and take on Big Bad Blue (IBM, which had a bad rep as a standover and dirty-tricks player back then in some circles - maybe MS learned something from them?).

CPM (and MPM) was good, but suddenly there was MS-DOS (PCDOS) bundled with units (IBM and "clones") whereas CPM cost $$$. No contest.

The inventor coming last and the innovator coming first is not new. It may even be compulsory!

Even in OS recognition stakes: what about Linux -v- GNU unix?

So don't invent. "Borrow" and innovate. (j/k)

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:26 pm

Borrow and innovate. It is known in every human age. Roma did it before M$

Post by **Dare2** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:33 pm

Psychophanta wrote:Borrow and innovate. It is known in every human age. Roma did it before M$

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:14 pm

Psychophanta wrote:
Kildall died in 1994 of uncertain causes in Monterey, California at the age of 52.
Strange ,

Yeah - really strange...

"The Circumstances of his death are pretty murky. One report attributed it to a fall from a ladder, another an incident at a bar, and another to a heart attack."

"Some reports say he fell off of a bar stool at the Franklin Street Bar and Grill in Monterey on July 8 and died of internal bleeding three days later."

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:22 pm

Come on, that's pathetic.
Everybody who die is known how, why and when.
And casually the death of a person whose contributions are significative and famous is not known...
I can say the reason of his death (which could be wroten in wikipedia): envy, money, mafia.