[pchelpers] Re: Microsoft Hassling a Teenager
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:17:49 +1300
Since Microsoft is one of the richest companies in the world, I wonder=20
if they have now demonstrated the truth of this well known quotation?
*** Rbi8 Ecclesiastes 5:10 ***
10 A mere lover of silver will not be satisfied with silver, neither any =
lover of wealth with income. This too is vanity.
Tonia wrote:
>Below is an extract from the newsletter Woody's Windows Watch. Doesn't t=
his incident make you fuming mad!!=20
>
>--quote--
>
>Microsoft is off to a poor start PR-wise. Hassling a teenager called Mi=
ke Rowe who has a sense of humor to make his web site MikeRoweSoft.com .=
Say it aloud and you'll realize why Microsoft became interested. Now =
I could understand Redmond's concern if this was a scam of some sort, but=
apparently the kids name is Mike Rowe and his web site (currently overlo=
aded with hits but you can see the Google cache version) wasn't pretendin=
g to be Microsoft related. Microsoft Legal went in boots thumping to thr=
eaten a teenager and then offer a paltry $10. Making unreasonable deman=
ds of people is what is called by Microsoft 'Good faith effort' - you'd h=
ate to see when they play hard ball. The company says the site could be=
used for misleading purposes in the future. McDonald's has made a fool =
of itself by trying to stop members of the McDonald clan establish legiti=
mate businesses in that famous name, it's a wonder that Microsoft is maki=
ng similar mistakes. Why not go all the w
> ay and
> sue the parents for giving their child a misleading name? Surely a poli=
te request that the web site have a disclaimer that it's not related to M=
icrosoft would have been sufficient (for anyone silly enough not to tell =
the two apart). For heaven's sake - would someone at Microsoft call a ha=
lt to this nonsense before the company name is further tarnished? --end =
quote---
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>Just in case the above link doesn't work, here is the complete URL of Mi=
ke Rowe's website.=20
>
>http://www.google.com.au/search?q=3Dcache:FSp2EjIGGqwJ:www.mikerowesoft.=
com/+mikerowesoft&hl=3Den&start=3D1&ie=3DUTF-8
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>Tonia
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