Microsoft Claims Ownership of Linux Copyright
Written by Ernesto on February 28, 2006In a takedown notice sent by microsoft, investigator Mr. James Young asks MyBitTorrent to remove several linux and other non-Microsoft torrents. Among the products Microsoft didn’t like was a “Windows-to-Linux-Migration video” and NeoOffice 1.2, which is a version of OpenOffice that works native on Mac OS X.
The so called “internet investigator probably did a search [...]
In a takedown notice sent by microsoft, investigator Mr. James Young asks MyBitTorrent to remove several linux and other non-Microsoft torrents. Among the products Microsoft didn’t like was a “Windows-to-Linux-Migration video” and NeoOffice 1.2, which is a version of OpenOffice that works native on Mac OS X.
The so called “internet investigator probably did a search on keywords like “microsoft” and “office” and didn’t even take a look at the actual torrents (probably automated).
The notice states “The information in this notice is accurate, and I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that I am authorized to act on behalf of Microsoft, the owner of the copyright(s) in the work(s) identified above. I have a good faith belief that none of the materials or activities listed above have been authorized by Microsoft, its agents, or the law.”
While sorting through the links that they demanded be removed administrators of myBitTorrent.com found themselves perplexed. Among the usual dozen or so Windows and Microsoft Office takedown requests were several for Xandros Linux, and other non-Microsoft products.
To start with myBitTorrent.com is not a torrent tracker site, rather it works similar to Google and simply caches the torrents and provides uses with a useful easy to search index of the majority of the torrents available throughout the web. Basically myBitTorrent.com provides links, to links (torrents) to files which may or may not be of copyright material, they simply have no idea of what the material is no more than Google really knows if a site or files they link to contains copyright material and/or links to copyright material.
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You gotta love microsoft, they like George Bush of the computer world. It probably wasn’t automated and they simply don’t like Linux. I always assumed Linux (or most of it) was free anyway. Microsoft should give their OS away free anyway, it’s always unfinished and always feel asif it’s still in the beta stage.
I don’t think this is a mistake.
““Windows-to-Linux-Migration video” and NeoOffice 1.2″
These are exactly things that will hurt microsoft’s products, it’s in their interests for these not to be easily distributable.
all bow to microsoft!
i love MICROSOFT!!!!
Makes you wonder how much code/ideas has been ‘borrowed’ by windows from GNU/Linux and other Open source stuff.
Yawn…^O^ Darn 10 year nap and Microsoft is still stupid…O well, going back to sleep now. -_-….(Beautiful…Linux dominated future) ^_^
Bill Gates Took Code from Unix and Linux they did not create most of their code…so if anyone is the thief is Gates….Just another act of bill to add to the list of things that they have done wether it be good or bad…
Linux is a Clone of Unix….Windows same shit Just changed so that it can be copyrighted
If ole Billy Gates likes something he steals it, if he can not get away with it. He buys them out. Billy and his Neo-Natzi Co should STFU! and Leave us Linux People to ourselves. Next we will be seeing MS-Linux…..OMG the world will come to an End!
“I have a good faith belief that none of the materials or activities listed above have been authorized by Microsoft, its agents, or the law.” i sure hope not, considering they don’t have creative control of it…
Microsoft, isn’t that a brand of toilet paper?
“Microsoft, isn’t that a brand of toilet paper?”
^_^ That made my day.
Heh- “Mi-Mi-Microsoft brand Toilet Paper- smooth, and silky- Ideal for wiping your ass with!”
Guess who is talking ppl the biggest pirate of all time MR BILL GATES himself who stole from apple’s original OS to make windows and also the new windows vista which is launched now has most of the apple’s feature’s incorporated in it.And this billy guy wants others to be nice to him well bill ur gettin the taste of ur own weapon tht is stealin.Also Micorosoft is almost now the thing of past because basicaly thier search engine bussiness is eaten by the giant google and thier internet explorer has become non existent due to mozilla firefox.So basically they r survivn on windows so its desperate times for billy and so it calls for desperate measures.
dont forget the ps3 wich will rule out xb360 ^^ up urs gate -bia-
Ow, i just *LOVE* these MS spy tactics. The system is one big spyware anyway and now they have “internet investigators” and stuff like that to make the wolrd a yet more NATZI place to live in. Thank you very mutch Bill, you ARE THE MAN :) Go burry yorself, your resistance agains Linux is futile :)
I think we should all hand out pirate copys of Microsoft products free of charge, because it aint worth paying Microsoft for shitty product, linuxxxx waaayyyyy
I heard Bill Gates was a paedophile…
OMG!! If all you don’t like the Microsoft Windows OS then why is there so many of us that buy it?? Is there any technical support for Linux?? I think not, except of course those f**ing Linux forums on the net that you have to access through Windows in a public library or something… lol. Anyways, Windows is full of ease and thats the way it will be… Windows OS is for the normal ppl and Linux is for the know-it-all NERDS!!!
Well, well. Its amazing what money does these days. I recall a saying “money is the root of all evil” WOrking at a local supplier, and seeing the crazy price one has to pay for microsoft products (and movies, and games)no wonder piracy has grown. C’mon developers, publishers, start dropping your rates, and believe me, folks will start bying more original titles. Believe me there is no worse scenario than bying software, getting home and realising its the biggest load of shit u have ever seen. Peace out all.
If Software titles cost as much a music then I would definitely buy it. They just have to drop the price of software to lower than the amount of trouble it is to get an illegal copy. Does anyone pirate bubblegum?
Microsoft do I put that on toast? bill should sell his shares on ebay while he still has a chance!
[quote]Well, well. Its amazing what money does these days. I recall a saying “money is the root of all evil” WOrking at a local supplier, and seeing the crazy price one has to pay for microsoft products (and movies, and games)no wonder piracy has grown. C’mon developers, publishers, start dropping your rates, and believe me, folks will start bying more original titles. Believe me there is no worse scenario than bying software, getting home and realising its the biggest load of shit u have ever seen. Peace out all.[/quote]
Smartest quote on this board so far. He/She hit it in a nutshell to be honest. I will probably never buy software again as long as I can get away with keeping my 40 to 4000 bucks by spending 5 minutes to find a good torrent and waiting up to a couple hours to have it immediately installed with a keygen and (nowadays) activation hack.
BTW, if Microsoft hasn’t copied in the past, it obviously has with vista and xp. XP looks like an immediate play off of Linux Redhat or Mandrake. While Vista looks just like a mac. This isn’t going to change. The only reason Linux and Mac don’t bitch about their products being swiped is 1. not near as many people to worry about, 2. Linux was MADE off of the hate for the MS license agreement. Gota love it.
I will finish by sayin this. I will use Linux 24/7 when they support as much software as Microsoft. Right now, I can run any software I want using my pirated copy of XP SP2 (to install) and Vista 5308. Vista is more compatible (and trust me on this) with more software than Linux and it is still in freakin beta. Half my products will not install and the other half have errors… yet they run better on vista than linux. I don’t have to subscribe to the gaming network (product similar to WinE, I forgot the name. Transgaming something).
Vista > Linux for now. Make shit easily compatible. Start thinking like MS does (economics wise). The end-user is a brick. Make it easy for him.
Just want to take a couple minutes to point a few things out. Microsoft has been the best thing to ever happen to PC’s. You might hate them and some of the b.s. that they pull, but no other product has been as beneficial to the computer world as Windows. No matter what the reports say, Microsoft is not scared of Mozilla Firefox. Yes there are a number of people that have switched to using firefox, but the vast majority still use IE. And as for cost, maybe Microsoft products cost more, but when you buy them you are also buying a level of compatibility that you don’t get with any other product. Oh, and for anybody that thinks Microsoft products are expensive, go price a high end IBM server. I write code for Unix servers all day, but at home everything is Windows.
Microsoft>YOU
I love BIG BROTHER, i mean microsoft.
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