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Story: MikeRoweSoft garners funds to fight back
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 20 January 2004, 5:04 PM)
MS is on solid legal ground, but $10? That's the real problem here - a multibillion dollar corporation deciding that $10 is fair compensation for deeply wounding a kid's nifty business idea, then responding to a request for $10,000 (not unreasonable for renaming and remarketing even a small business) as if it were "extortion". I'm not arguing that MS is technically wrong, and I certainly don't thing they're obliged to pay a nickel to anyone registering "MikeRoweSoft.org" after Jan. 18, but it was unconscionably petty to treat young Mike Rowe this way. MS can rescue this easily and cheaply with a $10,000 check presentation photo-op featuring an avuncular Steve Ballmer extolling the virtues of bright young entrepreneurs and tut-tutting the lapses of judgment all too common in corporate bureaucracies; noting that the fellow(s) who came up with the $10 offer and/or the "extortion" accusation have been shown the door would be a nice touch, but that's optional. Get cracking, Redmond - sooner than you think, this story can spin bigger and badder, and Mr. Rowe may be unreasonably emboldened by youthful bravado and a defense fund full of MS-hate dollars.
Full Talkback thread
Story: MikeRoweSoft garners funds to fight back
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Dear Mike,
Just to let u know u have more than en... Anonymous -
Micro's Soft Thinking!
Think of the legal fees... PennyFrazier
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I just read that one reader 'correctly' feels Micr... Anonymous
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I hope Billy Boy Gates is happy now that the blund... Anonymous
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Microsoft are forever throwing their weight around... Anonymous
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Microsoft ought to just buy Mike's site for the $1... mark ginzo
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I don't care about Microsoft or Mikerowesoft, I am... Anonymous
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Think about visually impaired people. If some tex... Anonymous
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I think its great that so many people are offering... Anonymous
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Good On U Mike!!! There should be no problem! Aft... Michael Miller
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Its all about principle. Mike Rowe cannot deny th... Anonymous
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Well you also cannot deny that his name is Mike Ro... Anonymous
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Make your new domain name public before Microsoft... John Normanton
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Amazing - we should all start registering similar... Maurice Clarke
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Sorry but how is his site an infringement? u might... Anonymous
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I don't care about Microsoft or Mikerowesoft, I am... Anonymous
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Just goes to show how sad and desperate Microsoft... Anonymous
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MS is on solid legal ground, but $10? That's the... Anonymous -
Go for it Mike ...... you didn't start out with th... Hugh Janue
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Mike, you fight for your site. After all its your... Anonymous
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Good on you Mike!
Lets face it, if its such a prob... Mike N
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Haha! Pure jokers, keep up the good work mike Seren
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Hey Mike
I wish you all the luck in the world, if... James Barnwell
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Go Mike!!! IS that U Garner?? Well see u on L4Y!!... Dan Goodyear (Dan Killer on L4Y)
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Microsoft Suck.
Just how low are these people goin... James HIll
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I'm still with you Mike, let's realy piss Billy Bo... james barnwell
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gets the facts straight guys.. Mike Rowe lives in... glenn letham
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Hope microsoft sees there dumb (microsoft that is)... Anonymous
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I think that Microsoft is making too much of a dea... Brian Li
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Anti-MS.. how fresh and interesting !
If Microsoft... Anonymous
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Ha ha. I think all of this is absolutely hilariou... Anonymous
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Poor Mike. Can see why Microsoft have to take acti... Rykan
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David v Goliath
I have been computing since the ea... Anonymous
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this story can spin bigger and badder?Yes. It may... John Lo
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When does MS sue Viagra? They cure the micro-soft... angered canadian
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MS doesn't have anything better to do, do they? P... Adam
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I think that is totally stupid - Who does microsof... Greg
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Should not have messed with Bill Gates, that basta... mAcrosoft
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Voicing my support of Mike Rowe. Let the little g... linux user
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interesting story...
...however, i think that addi... boron lester
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First they make bad software, then they try t... Joe Bloggs
