digitaltippingpoint.com — To show that Microsoft's "Be very afraid" campaign did not work on us, we are challenging MS to sue us first regarding alleged patent infringements we are committing. Read more at the above URL, or add your name and email to the list here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php?title=Sue_me_first_Microsoft_list
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imtigger2May 20, 2007
Ha! These f**kin' idiots modded their Xbox360's, against the terms they agreed to when they signed up for it.... and now they're saying "Screw you! You WANT to lose me as a customer? I'm going to the PS3!!"Ha! What a joke.Even funnier, there was a post on the MS XBL forum where this guy proudly stated that he was going to SELL his Xbox360 and the hundreds of burned copies of games he collect over this last year, and he's going to buy a PS3 with the money. What a f**kin' moron! Does he, and others like him, truly believe that MS wants them as "customers"?.. or needs them?? What a joke. You guys are truly delusional and unbelievably arrogant.BTW, there were a select few, like myself, that literally said, "well, it was a fun year of playing free games, time to pay $400 for a new machine and get back on Xbox Live." I modded mine, got banned, and I deserved every bit of it! I'll just play my games offline without issue, and buy a new box for playing Xbox Live! ... which in my opinion, is the REASON to have an Xbox360.Peace!
agimatMay 20, 2007
Way to link whore.
xaboraMay 20, 2007
@mictester:Did you read the paper you signed when you started working for MS about the Employee Inventions and how they become property of the company if you worked on them during company time?I'm guessing you didn't.
einfeldtMay 21, 2007
@NoNamesLeftYou wrote: "If you want a serious list of people to back up your campaign you need to change it from being a wiki page!"We have had complaints about this wiki. But it is the same software that runs wikipedia. We are in the process of completely redesigning the Digital Tipping Point website. But in the meantime, we have been relying heavily on a wiki due to our need to have our transcriptions catalog running on a wiki:<a class="user" href="http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php?title=Transcriptions_Catalog">http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php?title=Transcriptions_Catalog</a>You wrote: "Why don't you just use a simple message board or something?"We tried that for other aspects of our site, and it did not prove as popular as a wiki. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you that a message board might have been better for the purpose of the "Sue me first, Microsot" campaign. However, one upside to the wiki is that the fact that it is just a wee bit harder to use means that it will screen out people who will impulsively post garbage. Garbage posters tend to be impulse posters. Also, the wiki allows us to easily maintain a numbering sequence. I'm not sure we could have gotten that with a message board. You wrote " I had to edit the page twice with my edits being deleted in the process, and there is no protection against my name or others being deleted in the future by either an accidental user or a malicious attack."No, actually, Mediawiki, which is our wiki software, allows users to rollback the wiki to an earlier status. And actually, the nice thing about a wiki is that the open nature of the wiki allows people to "own it", meaning that if someone really likes the project, they can watch the page, and correct attacks on the page. But thanks for your thoughts on the issue. A software choice is never an easy choice for a large project like the Digital Tipping Point. See yaChristian Einfeldt,Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
ianlynchMay 21, 2007
DOS was a retrograde step when it came out and is the foundation of the complicated technological mess we have to deal with on a day to day basis now. We could go back to the better and more comprehensive design that spawned DOS. errr Unix. Oh I see we are doing that aren't we :-) Ironic that Bill Gates and co are so precious about their IPR when in fact even their bad fundamental starting point was "borrowed" from existing R&D without paying the communities that developed these ideas a bean. Don't you just love hypocrisy?
weeeezzllMay 22, 2007
Reziarfg said "There are evangelical Linux users just as there are evangelical Christians. You can't let only the most fundamentalist ones speak for the entire community. For the most part, just like moderate Christians, Linux users keep to themselves."Christians? Blech! I think Linux users are more like atheists. There is no god...
siucdudeMay 23, 2007
wow, I just smile when all the people who use M$ get a virus, and they have to take it to Geek to fix it. spend few $$$ and then have the same s**t happen again, For some reason, I don't spend 20 minutes in front of my computer checking that all my anit-Virus,Firewall is up and running, like the typical M$ user.
sunnzMay 24, 2007
MS is not going to sue anyone. They'll just do this FUD again when people start to forget about this SMFM campaign.Just put a note down in your calendar, exactly 6 months later from now, to remind yourself if anyone still aware of this campaign, and if MS has ignored it and already started its 6th/7th/8th FUD thing again.
Closed AccountJun 2, 2007
@einfeldt:you are a whore
darkutJun 28, 2007
jaja. I've been using fedora core 6 and 7 in the past 6 months, and spent less and less time on winblows everyday. plus, with my exhausting of the 10 activations, I cant use my legal copy of xp anymore without begging for a code from m$ tech guy with asian accent, asking me all kinds of silly questions haha. but anyway, thanks for you wonderful innovation called activation, now I can't and won't use your silly piece of software anymore, you made me a free man haha. but anyway, ive been thinking i really should make an image of my ntfs partition so i can restore to the first day after install every time the activation kicks in, you know, all i need with windows is play my half life 2 and thats about it:) another thing i could do is try and install xp on in virtualbox and use snapshots, that should work pretty dandy too. just yesterday i was talkin with a swedish 15 year old kid who started using ubuntu after bsod problems and thinking how lucky he was for meeting linux at such young age. but oh well, its better later than never right:)