Not exactly the same...3 years ago a kid with a name sounding like micro (kind of like the old joke of calling a grocery store and asking for a certain mike) put up a website purposely because he thought it was funny that his name combined with soft sounded like microsoft. He had little to zero investment in the site and in the end it looks like he got more then he deserved. Apple HAD to pay that amount because of the domain they wanted.
If anyone thinks Apple is 'about doing the right thing' ask some bloggers they have sued or other websites for trivial things. I suppose it had been awhile since a lets slam MS for no reason story was posted, we got a twofer this week. Mike On 7/3/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Apparently, this person had the domain since '95 and was building a >business on it long before Apple came up with iPhone. Apple purchased >the domain from him for some amount in the seven figure range. > http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/02/apple_secures_iphone_com_for_seve n_figure_sum____report.html Good to see Apple doing the right thing. Recently in a similar situation MS sicked their lawyers on a poor guy and made him part with his site for $50. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
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