http://clevescene.com/issues/2005-03-30/news/feature_print.html
YESSSS! XD
Heh… Microsoft pwns hotmail…
I love this kid and hope this serves as a lesson.
Figure it out for yourself.
Woot. :biggrin:
Settling just doesn’t have quite the satsifactory ZING as an actual win, but eh. Smart guy.
Hurray!
Reminds me of when I sued my Highschool…
kind of a different situation, but the idea of winning a trial against a “powerhouse” that people just don’t fight was really similar.
They never actually apologised did they?
When he took the software home, he realized that he’d have to reformat his hard drive to install it. Rather than lose years of term papers <b>and mp3s,</b> he decided to stick with his old operating system and return the unopened packages.
I find this funny, sure, but considering <a href=“http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/20/1733215&tid=95&tid=17”>this,</a> He may just want to keep that under his hat.
He also discovered that the suit was essentially a carbon copy of others the company had filed – such as Microsoft vs. Vantandoust, where the company sued a corporation that was selling counterfeit versions of its software. “They just tweaked a template and filed it,” Zamos says.
I wonder if they’ll release that template in the next Word update.
It looked as if Microsoft lawyers were so used to defendants caving, they hadn’t even bothered to craft a suit that represented the circumstances of Zamos’s case.
This is, beleive it or not, an integral part of the Microsoft managing style.
After two months of back-and-forth filings, the judge ordered both sides to stop submitting any more paperwork.
I’m sure the RPGC staff can relate. XD
Zamos is no longer allowed to speak about the case, which is just the way Microsoft wants it.
I’m reminded of the gag-order lodged against Jay Leno for his comments on Michael Jackson.
Zamos says he’ll still use the company’s software. He has no choice. “I have to, since they practically own the universe.”
Okay, he’s smarter than he looks, but that doesn’t make him a <i>genius</i> or anything.
Oh, and one last thing I thought was funny.
“They even wanted me to go on the Nick Cavuto show on Fox, but I didn’t want to go on some crazy conservative talk show – that’s scary. I just wanted to put pressure on Microsoft.”
Who is this <a href=“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Nick+Cavuto&btnG=Search”>Nick Cavuto</a>? :hint: :hint:
Rock on David Zamos, rock on. 
That really makes microsoft look bad. Thats funny how one of the most highest buisnesses loses in trial to a kid, you think they would get a good attorney, seeing how they are very rich company. lol I love that kid(not like that…thats just wrong)
That’s only for material not yet released. And, even then, mp3s have been deemed not illegal, if you own the original work (unlike ROMs).
Neither of us can make any definite assumptions about the composition of his mp3 collection, so I can still say that discretion is the better part of valor.