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- euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+153And I thought I was the only one who measured time in fractions of a dildo.
- j4200, on 10/11/2007, -14/+131Hmm, so you plan to get rid of linux users by whining?
- eschompthis, on 10/11/2007, -17/+104please quit acting like you have so much balls, do you know who microsoft is? They will buy your ass out in a fraction of a dildo.
- PaddyTheChump, on 10/11/2007, -18/+105Please keep your inaccurate stereotypes off digg. Not all of us are, just some.
- macgyber, on 10/11/2007, -13/+83Microsoft: We're totally gonna sue you for stealing our patented ideas!
Linux: Oh yeah?! We'd like to see you try!!!!
Microsoft: Ya know what, you guys arn't so bad after all and we might have been wrong but we're not going to admit it..
Linux: Oh yeah?! We'd like to see you try!!!!
Microsoft: ......
Linux: ZOMG HAHAHA WE WIN! M$ IS Teh N00bZ!!! - hassanchop13, on 10/11/2007, -4/+60to get some traffic to their site?
- Reziarfg, on 10/11/2007, -8/+61There 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.
- macgyber, on 10/11/2007, -4/+49They already explicitly said they won't sue linux users in any way, so why put them to the challange now?
- imtigger2, on 10/11/2007, -13/+55Ha! These *****' 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 *****' 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! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+38Something tells me these guys don't even run Linux...
- afx1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25This reminds me of the henchman in Austin Powers who was standing a few hundred feet in front of the vehicle heading towards him, stuck out his hand and started screaming, even though there was no immediate threat.
- euphemizeme, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Answer: My ex-girlfriend dumped me for this, citing more intelligent conversation and a better love life.
"What's a dildo??'
Correct! - BlackAdderIII, on 10/11/2007, -5/+23"""God damn I hope Microsoft does sue"""
Oh, so do I. It's about time they had to stand up for their patents in court
EDIT:@jenda - that was actually an interesting snippet by Moglen there - I like the way he articulates the patent cross-licensing as a company messing up an ecosystem - thought-provoking. - macgyber, on 10/11/2007, -6/+21Basically, I'm waiting for the followup story where some Linux zealot tries to proclaim victory on their behalf by not being sued by Microsoft, ignoring the fact that Microsoft could probably care less about what they've written in their personal blog...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+22Christian, you are a tool. kthx
- einfeldt, on 10/11/2007, -9/+21@Swk386,
you wrote "what kind of idiot individually wants to invite a lawsuit from Microsoft (or any other large corporation) for that matter, sure you'll get crazy attention, but you will be bankrupted if you don't settle.... "
I am a lawyer, and I go up against larger opponents every day of my professional life. No lawyer is going to invite a lawsuit if he or she thinks that his or her practice will be harmed by it.
In this case, my only "client" would be myself. But I have spent enough time in court to be able to spot a bluff when I see it. Microsoft is not going to sue me or anyone else, for that matter. Which is exactly the point of our "Sue me first, Microsoft" campaign. If they believed that they had a good case, they would have done what NTP did to RIM (the Blackberry maker), they would have asked the court to shut down the operations for any company that was really violating their patents. Microsoft is hoping that potential users of Free Open Source Software will engage in self-censorship. We are just saying that we are not going to engage in self-censorship; and that we would like other potential users of Free Open Source Software to know that they are safe, too.
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point - BlackAdderIII, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14You don't.
You just make a lot of noise about suing *companies* that *use* it in the hope that they will follow channels you can exploit financially (windows, suse) through fear.
Good luck with that, Microsoft, BTW, because everyone knows companies love being blackmailed into purchasing decisions - it's a great way to make friends in the business world. - j4200, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12In all fairness, that vehicle was a steamroller..
- ShadowKlown, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10It's only illegal if you're sharing copyright material... There are a TON of songs/apps available to dl via p2p that are free.
Edit: Most of which are also available on various websites, but some people find it easier to download via p2p. - Edu115, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13The irony of it all is that this guy doesn't even as money to get hosting with decent bandwidth...
- Noah0504, on 10/11/2007, -6/+15They sue the users.
- SwK386, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13what kind of idiot individually wants to invite a lawsuit from Microsoft (or any other large corporation) for that matter, sure you'll get crazy attention, but you will be bankrupted if you don't settle.... Sure, some people will come to your aid w/ legal support and some donations of cash to help pay, but M$ will absolutely crush you with their legal filings alone
- Arkonnan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7> Microsoft has said that they have patents that are infringed by GNU and / or Linux, but Microsoft won't say which patents, or which parts of GNU or Linux or OpenOffice.org.
And unless they sue someone, they don't have to. That's the point. Their licensing scheme appears to work just fine. They get a slice of the pie without having to provide a product or service, and without having to lift a finger legally. So why should they ruin a good thing by taking the matter to court? - yensed, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12Just TRY and Sue Me Microsoft!!!
Homer Simpson
homerman1@hawtmail.com - arcooke, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Here's the text
http://duggmirror.com//software/Sue_me_first_Microsoft/plain.html - Arkonnan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Instead of taunting Microsoft into suing Linux users, why not organize an effort to examine Microsoft's patent portfolio and attempt to invalidate them one by one? Patent details are freely available online, are they not? Let's face it, Microsoft isn't going to sue anyone. They don't care about end users. Their goal is to approach small or mid-size businesses and scare them into paying licensing fees for using Linux. They won't dare go after a large corporation with a patent portfolio that rivals their own. They're going to go after the easy targets. Smaller companies that cannot afford to wage a drawn out legal battle, but have enough in their coffers to pay out a small licensing fee per year.
Hit them where it hurts. Start filing claims and invalidating those patents. - vonskippy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Sure, Microsoft will waste their time suing some freaks that can't even afford enough bandwidth for their site.
These guys must be related to the Tux500 folks. - Fritzel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6"to let the rest of the cast don't die"
- Darcy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7So, you start a dumb, pointless and very childish campaign, in the hope of bringing much needed traffic to your site, and your servers can't handle it. That's just great.
- einfeldt, on 10/11/2007, -10/+14@tamrix
You wrote: "Something tells me these guys don't even run Linux..."
All of us in the Digital Tipping Point project use various flavors of GNU Linux. I personally have boxes running SuSE 10.2, Edgy Ubuntu, and Mepis. I also volunteer as a level one tech support guy at a public middle school in San Francisco that uses LTSP to run 33 thin clients. Pluse we have another 30 fat clients in the school running Mepis. One of our sys admins, Adam Doxtater, is the founder of Mad Penguin.org, and Slackersbible.org. You could go to Madpenguin.org and search for Linux reviews by Adam.
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer - Xabora, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@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. - TiKoZ, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8Sue your host first, Big mouth!
- zerodive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7lame. grow up.
- arcooke, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Use this one:
http://duggmirror.com//software/Sue_me_first_Microsoft/plain.html
The other one takes forever to load, then once it finally does it spits out errors about AJAX - Xabora, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Funny, I have this email address for a rather large software corp and I use Linux. >_>
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+12Paddy...it is a big enough percentage that are that is it valid. After all, NO stereotypes are 100% correct.
- Eska, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7It annoys me how everyone gets caught up in all this crap. Everyone saying sue me first is just as dumb as the people suing. You are trying to piss off microsoft; you can not claim to be linux lovers. linux lovers do not care what political games everyone is playing, they are too caught up in their linuxing. Same with microsofts developers, they don't care about linux at all, they are concentrating on their own projects.
It is everyone who has nothing to do with the real development of anything who cares about politics. You who are worthless and can not contribute anything of real value to the community devote your life to the community one of two ways. You a) try to become the martyrs that saved the gurus (linux fanboys) or b) try to be the protectors of what the gurus developed (microsoft fanboys). What you don't understand is that the gurus don't give a damn about you and they don't need you, they are busy doing what they enjoy, developing. - IanLynch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Is there an education system in the USA? How we can get this far down the discussion and have people not understand the success of Einfeldt's strategy is quite amazing. Whatever you think of Microsoft or GNU Linux, the fact that this is on Digg's front page means it was a smart thing to do, end of story. Microsoft has lots of money to spread its propaganda (ooops....marketing message) about the nature of the company and what it believes to be ethical and fair. Most of the Linux community don't have such resources. By doing things like this Linux activists get collective publicity and compete for air space. Just keep the arguments coming, and probably the more personal attacks on Einfeldt the better, that will keep the story up the lists and some mainstream journo might take it up.
- Darcy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"Not really. The "author" didn't submit it."
The author new that anything relating to the 'MS patent claims', stands a very strong chance of making it to Diggs front page. It doesn't matter how lame the stories are, the title just needs to include the words "Microsoft FUD", "Patent" and "Linux", it's an almost guaranteed traffic generator. Which is why there has been a seemingly endless line of these stories on digg over the last week. - einfeldt, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9Okay, our server is back up now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Wow, what a monster Digg is! An identical server to our Digital Tipping Point server (the former Mad Penguin.org server) withstood Slashdot, but Digg just absolutely crushed our server!
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point - IanLynch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3All of this is why we don't want the broken US patents system in Europe. Patents were started to protect individual inventors, the small guys with good and innovative ideas, from being exploited by larger financially powerful interests. Now the system is so badly broken particularly in the US, it serves to keep lawyers in business and to provide risk to any individual with a good idea that does not have massive financial backing. Reform is long overdue but I suspect that a political system so heavily geared to existing financial interests is not likely to go down that route.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7Wrong. They sue Redhat, Debian other non-SUSE distros.
- Avalontor, on 10/11/2007, -7/+9This is just one big "come visit my site" ad. Spam
- OBKenobi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3You've all got it backwards. It's MS that should be sued, if they don't produce these mysterious patents and continue their predatory FUD campaign.
What they're doing by spreading FUD to damage Linux sales is tantamount to industrial sabotage. The Linux community shouldn't stand for this. Where's Groklaw and the EFF? - hassanchop13, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@the guy talking about free speech:
nobody is making him shutup, he is free to say whatever he wants. I'm also free to ignore or laugh at him. - kalak5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3"mellow dramatic"
- asadajk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Kudos to this sue me first M$ thing.let the fsckers right there in US knows that s/w patents does not exists unlike the whore who pressed Bill out :x
- Sunnz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2MS 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. - slythfox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Not really. The "author" didn't submit it.
But if you're going to look at it that way, would you say that's true with pretty much every story on digg? - Ssullivan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3So why exactly did einfeldt get dugg down? He's completely right.
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