[ale] [Fwd: [Am-info] Microsoft Convicted of Software Piracy]

[Geoffrey]

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Subject: [Am-info] Microsoft Convicted of Software Piracy
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 08:21:45 -0700
From: Mitch Stone <mitch at accidentalexpert.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: AM-INFO <am-info at venice.essential.org>

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/07/2234251&mode=thread&tid=3

Did you know Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a
French court? Not many people do. The Commercial Court of Nanterre fined
Microsoft 3 million francs because it illegally included another company's
proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D, a top-of-the-line animation
package.

The only authoritative report on the event was written by Lionel
Berthomier and first published in the French paper, Le Monde Informatique.
   An English version was reprinted at PCWorldMalta on November 28, 2001 --
about two months after the court's decision. Both Le Monde Informatique
and PCWorldMalta are affiliated with IDG, the parent of InfoWorld and
LinuxWorld. Yet, neither of these sites published a word about Microsoft's
conviction on September 27, 2001.

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I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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