Microsoft No Match For Student

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2005 in Science & Tech
For the past four months, Zamos has been fighting four high-powered Microsoft attorneys. They claimed he violated trademark and copyright laws by selling two unopened pieces of software on eBay for $203.50.
The honchos at Bill Gates' empire probably thought it would be an easy, open-and-shut case, just like the 1,045 similar suits they have filed.
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It wasn't any particular genius or advanced legal skills that made Zamos different from the other defendants. It wasn't even that he was right. He simply did his homework -- and outplayed the lawyers at their own game.
Submitted by: Kwitko

Source: Clevescene

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    A great story :thumbsup:. I don't think I would have had the patience to sift through that much legalese. It's too bad he had to sign the NDA, it would have been nice to shame Microsoft some more.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited September 2005
    Yes!! That a boy! Stick it to the MAN!
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    I just read the whole thing. Good story! It casts Microsoft in the same big-guy-picking-on-the-plebians light that the RIAA is in lately. I hate it when big corps think they can push people around (even when the corp is in the wrong) just because they have lawyers and money. :shakehead
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    wow...that just makes me wanna put unix on my computer instead of microsoft...if it wasnt for the games. but honestly..substantial losses over the kid selling xp for 90 some dollars??? You made millions of dollars last year microsoft....good god....get the stick out of your ass.
  • Jolyon33Jolyon33 Kalamazoo, MI
    edited September 2005
    OMG, that is just too rich. It's just too bad that he settled with Microsoft at all. It would have been much more fun to embarrass the "evil empire" for a while on the afternoon and late-night talk shows. Serves Microsoft and its lawyers right.
  • LammypieLammypie
    edited September 2005
    That is the best news I've heard for ages.
    My only wish is that he'd not settled, and fought it all of the way - then it would have been a glorious victory, and we would all watch a movie about it in a few years.

    Go Zamos!
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    Lammypie wrote:
    ... and we would all watch a movie about it in a few years.
    Go Zamos!
    A movie would have been AWESOME. That would embarass Microsoft on an unimaginable scale, and might finally have changed the practices of big music, big movies, and big software when it comes to their harassment tactics.

    Stupid NDA. Maybe someone else could make an "inspired by" movie.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    I can see it now- a big Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster. Evil corporation. Incredibly bright and cocky young guy. Car chases. Explosions! Heavy courtroom drama.

    IN A WORLD... ;D
  • Private_SnoballPrivate_Snoball Dover AFB, DE, USA
    edited September 2005
    Awesome job by this kid, sounds like microsoft bit off more than it wanted to chew there. They could handle it, but damn that's a waste of funds. In Microsofts defence, this is like 1 case out a thousand that was unfair, if they let anything slide it would be everywhere and then everyone would be out trying to do the same. It's a terrible case, but a big business has a lot of enemies, and lots of people who are looking for that one way to bring them down. But still, damn Zamos is a ballsy sumabitch
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    You'd think that Microsoft would at least understand the case they were making first, and not slap a carbon-copy case that only applied to companies selling pirated software on Zamos.
  • jradminjradmin North Kackalaki
    edited September 2005
    Lammypie wrote:
    That is the best news I've heard for ages.
    My only wish is that he'd not settled, and fought it all of the way - then it would have been a glorious victory, and we would all watch a movie about it in a few years.

    Go Zamos!


    Anyone seen "Antitrust" ? If that movie isnt a stab at Microsoft then nothing is :)
  • GooDGooD Quebec (CAN) Member
    edited September 2005
    Hahaha Yeah even the bad guy (owner of the compagny) in antithrust look like bill gates in some ways... I'm sure this was what the productor of the movie was looking for ;D

    BTW : I love Zamos :D
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    Or Netforce with "Will Styles" ;D
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