[TriLUG] got a business you are trying to covert to OSS?

[Brian Henning]

-1 knee-jerk.

Whether or not we appreciate Microsoft's software, prices, services, 
business practices, or choice of cologne, pirating their software is as 
illegal as pirating anyone else's.  Though I suspect it will result in 
more bad publicity than anything else, Microsoft is not overstepping 
(imho) any moral or ethical bound by initiating these suits against 
entities they have reason to believe are violating the terms of their 
licenses.

Of course, I also strongly support the idea that the plaintiff should be 
subject to severe punitive damages should investigation reveal the 
charges are false.

Cheers,
~B

Greg Brown wrote:
> Yes, the world's richest man needs to be a bit more wealthy.
> 
> On 9/13/06, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
>>
>> <chuckle>
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/oem/english/images/gsi/ms_lawsuit.gif
>>
>> </chuckle>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Greg Brown
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:02 AM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>> Subject: [TriLUG] got a business you are trying to covert to OSS?
>>
>> Microsoft just made things easier but publishing a list of the compaines
>> they have recently filed lawsuits against:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/partners/alerts.mspx
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