<Yes, some people think I'm their nanny. You can Google on "Microsoft sue website owner" just as well as I can. Add the term "Canadian" to your search and the story I was thinking of will be your first hit.>
Right. I did Google this, and I came up with the same story. I simply assumed that it was the wrong case because you had said something about "a similar situation", and, other than that they both involved domain names, this case had no similarity WHATSOEVER to the iPhone case. <Rereading the story in the Guardian I see that I was in error. Microsoft did not offer $50. They offered $10 (ten dollars).> Which was his actual cost. Then, after MS itself heard about what its Canadian lawyers were up to, they gave the kid a bunch of other much more valuable stuff. You also didn't bother to include the quote from the MS rep: "We appreciate that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative domain name. We take our trademark seriously, but maybe a little too seriously in this case." This sounds to me like a classic case of legal representatives going overboard. Noting that the letter came from MS's Canadian representation, not from Microsoft, I'd bet good money that no one at MS even knew about this; Almost the exact same thing happened to me, years ago. Borland's attorneys sent me a letter; I forwarded it to Philippe Kahn, who said, in essence, "Geeze, sorry. Lawyers, go figure. I'll fix it." That was the right response, and it seems pretty much the same as what MS did. <Google on "Microsoft sue website owner"> Interesting Google find. MS didn't sue the kid, and the word "sue" appears nowhere in the Guardian article. Tom, there are plenty of real knocks against MS. Why drop silly, inaccurate stuff like this into the conversation? It just makes you the Bill O'Reilly of MS bashers. ************************************************************************ * ==> 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/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
