[plug] [OT] M$ anti-piracy ads

[Mark Nold]

Due to the "growing threat of piracy" I can't wait till Bush declares a "War
on Piracy".

That'll stop all this piracy.



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From: Anthony Jones [mailto:ajones at clear.net.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2002 7:44 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] M$ anti-piracy ads


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M$ have been shown in court to have breeched copyright. There was a french
case (which I briefly read about last night) and J++/Java case where they
breeched copyright on Sun's Java source code. M$ are the biggest (to use
their terminology) pirates I know of.

I was forced by them for a copy of Windows ME which I don't even use
(because
I bought a laptop I had no choice). I see this is a far more severe form of
thieft than their wining about unauthorised copying (the GNU term for what
they're bitching about - piracy is attacking ships).

Perhaps I should tell them I have all this pirated M$ software and see what
happens.

Anthony

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 21:15, Peter J. Nicol wrote:
> anyone seen any of these around?
>
> http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/viewad/493003/120x600_Clean.gif
>
> I saw this one on The Register ...
>
> Seems like they are going pretty hard at it.  I sent
> piracy at microsoft.com a humourous little note telling them I used Linux,
> and hence had no compliance issues.
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