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sue or shut up.
Talkback I seriously doubt that M$ wants to open its source code to scrutiny. It could very well be that they have code from other companies interwoven throughout. After all, they have been known to "borrow", I mean innovate, on prior art.
[May 15, 2007, 14:44]
Parents to sue tech firms for child murders
News The parents of three high-school students who were murdered at school in Kentucky are claiming the entertainment industry and media violence inspired the killer to murder their children. The parents will file a $130m (£79m) lawsuit in US District...
[April 14, 1999, 8:47]
Sellers sue eBay over double-billing
News A pair of eBay members have initiated a class-action-suit against the online auctioneer over a problem with the company's latest billing system. The two eBay members filed a claim against the company on Friday, alleging that eBay failed to address...
[July 6, 2004, 16:45]
Publishers sue Gator over pop-ups
News A group of publishers this week sued the Gator online advertising network in a bid to bar the company from serving pop-up ads on their Web sites without their permission. The suit was filed on Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
[June 28, 2002, 9:53]
Microsoft's covenant not to sue open-source developers.
Talkback Could it be that the leopard is changing it's spots? Given their previous record, just how far do you trust Redmond? If I were a coder, I would be extremely afraid of Microsoft, regardless of what they say.
[February 22, 2008, 12:46]
Shareholders sue MP3.com
News Famed plaintiff's attorney Bill Lerach of the firm Milberg Weiss has sued MP3.com, alleging the company mislead shareholders about future growth and knew it was basing its business on a model that violated copyrights.
[September 20, 2000, 9:23]
Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
Talkback I just realised that Microsoft may be able to sue me for smiling as I could possibly be impersonating their patent.or maybe they may sue me for frowning as it could be a deliberate attempt to discredit their smiley
[August 4, 2005, 21:17]
Matalan writes off £20m over failed IT system
News Retailer Matalan is threatening to sue an IT consultancy after spending £20m on an unfinished new computer system that has now been scrapped. But the Matalan board said it may sue the IT consultancy that advised the company on the new system over...
[May 5, 2006, 9:45]
SCO files suit in Linux-using court
Talkback When SCO said that they were going to sue a Linux user one would have expected them to sue over Linux. But instead, they sue two of their own customers over EUALA violations of SCO-only porducts in the hope the amazingly ignorant journalists of...
[March 3, 2004, 21:02]
Microsoft: Linux is anti-commercial
Talkback By that criteria, HP should just sue dell for anti-competitive behaviour (ie, pricing their equivlient systems cheaper than HP do), Coke could sue Pepsi (and vice versa) and SCO could sue everyone - well, everyone *else* they aren't already suing :)
[November 27, 2005, 16:39]
Judge dreads software patents
Talkback I can sue anyone who re-produces my work for commercial gain that didn't get a license from me for my permission. This rule was brought by president Ronald Regan so patent owners could not just "sit" on patents and then sue if some company brought...
[January 19, 2006, 5:39]
Microsoft struggles to work with open source
Talkback Simply disallow Microsoft to sue or patent anything. If someone reverse-engineers a Microsoft product in order to make their own software compatible, then Microsoft should not be allowed to sue. Remove any patents Microsoft has on things that they...
[April 6, 2005, 20:05]
Eolas wants Microsoft to stop browser distribution
Talkback Yet another company jumps on the Sue Microsoft bandwagon. Is Eolas going to sue all of the other browsers that use this code in the exact same way? Or did they just target the biggest one that could give them the most money for something they...
[October 16, 2003, 20:17]
Microsoft promise lets Mono off the hook
News Microsoft is to promise not to sue developers who implement its C# programming language and the Common Language Infrastructure, both of which underpin its .NET framework. The Community Promise is an irrevocable assurance that Microsoft will not sue...
[July 7, 2009, 16:37]
Court to decide Kazaa's US liability
News A Los Angeles federal judge will hear arguments Monday as to whether record companies and movie studios can sue the parent company of Kazaa, the most popular online file-swapping service, in the United States.
[November 25, 2002, 8:29]
'Shift key' student won't be sued
News In an abrupt reversal, SunnComm Technologies said on Friday that it will not sue a Princeton University graduate student who published a paper that describes how to bypass CD copy-protection technology simply by pressing the shift key.
[October 13, 2003, 8:55]
Swap a file, go to jail?
News When the recording industry last month let slip plans to sue individuals who trade copyrighted songs on file-swapping services, Web surfers everywhere pulled down their MP3 collections in a frenzy of fear.
[July 16, 2002, 8:00]
Microsoft opens up more code
Talkback Except MAYBE (and emphasis on maybe) sue spammers! And then sue, sue, sue, sue. Nothing Microsoft has ever done, has been on the up and up. So Microsoft is littering the Open Source world with open source code, which it no doubt wants to see end up...
[September 30, 2004, 1:12]
Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit
Talkback The DMCA is just a get out for companies who produce shoddy software to sue anyone that lets the world know how cr*p they are. Now they can sue me for providing the info and MS for shipping the tools.
[October 13, 2003, 13:11]
Is your licence out of date?
Talkback "If an Open Source deployment goes pear-shaped who do I sue? What, you think you'd be able to sue Microsoft if your Office deployment went wrong? They'd laugh in your face.
[May 4, 2006, 13:44]
