● 08.10.09
●● Microsoft Caught ‘Stealing’ Music, Accuses Others of ‘Stealing’ Office
Posted in Finance, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 3:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Hypocrisy from Microsoft and aggression towards sellers of its software
THE FOLLOWING story totally failed to make it into the mainstream press, but blogs are actively discussing Microsoft’s ‘theft’ (copying) of someone else’s work.
Oh my God! Microsoft STOLE LittleBigPlanet’s music!Today, on what must obviously be an incredibly slow news day, Microsoft has come under fire for BLATANT THEFT, shamelessly stealing the music that was 100% totally invented for LittleBigPlanet. This incalculable controversy has swept up the gaming blogs in such a whirlwind of confusion that the videogame industry may never recover.
Shame on Microsoft, especially for being hypocrites who accuse others of imitating. This includes GNU/Linux as a victim.
Speaking of ‘stealing’ or ‘pirating’ (counterfeiting), watch what Microsoft does to people who spread its software. In essence, Microsoft is sending former partners to prison or driving them into bankruptcy [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
The owner of a small computer repair shop in Torrington has been going toe-to-toe with Microsoft after the software giant accused Johnson last year of selling pirated software and infringing on the company’s copyrights and trademarks.[...]According to court filings, he sold the software to Patricia Ubran, a Microsoft investigator who specifically asked him to buy a copy of Office 2003 from e-Bay and install it on two computers for her because Office 2007 was too expensive.
How reputable a trap/bait. Microsoft has investigators masquerading as customers who lure people into little scams. Microsoft’s scapegoat, Kent Johnson in this case, ought to just sell GNU/Linux and Free software (such as OpenOffice.org) on those PCs. █
“It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.”
–Bill Gates
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