Comments on: MikeRoweSoft Settles with Microsoft

MikeRoweSoft Settles with Microsoft

fenriq — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:57:59 -0800

MikeRoweSoft Settles with Microsoft for an XBox
Mike Rowe had a website named after himself that was alot like the mega-corp.
MS wanted to give him $10 to change the domain, he wanted $10k. They settled on a trip to Redmond, some traffic redirection and an XBox.

Followup to this thread.

By: shepd

shepd — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:00:49 -0800

I'd have asked MS for something even cheaper for them: A right, in perpetuity, to install and run any and all Microsoft software for free. Doesn't cost a dime, and guarantees no more BSA audits! Woohoo!

By: ikalliom

ikalliom — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:07:03 -0800

I wonder what's going to happen to mikkosoft.com...

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:09:13 -0800

I love a story with a happy ending.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:17:07 -0800

The settlement also forces Microsoft to allow Mr. Rowe to be keynote speaker at Microsoft's next board meeting. Harvard plans to review Mr. Rowe's application.

By: internook

internook — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:44:29 -0800

Sellout.

By: briank

briank — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:46:53 -0800

Cool, I'm going to run right out and register MyCrowSoft.com so I can get a free X-Box.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:54:55 -0800

MyCrowSoft.com so I can get a free X-Box. You're Brian Krow(sic)? Mr. Row used his birth name.

By: krinklyfig

krinklyfig — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:29:31 -0800

Rowe's new Web site [which MS helped provide], which is called MikeRoweForums.com, already has more than 700 members and carries advertising banners for file-sharing service Warez P2P. That's too funny.

By: briank

briank — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:33:34 -0800

You're Brian Krow(sic)? I could be if it would score me a freebie.

By: Succa

Succa — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:54:18 -0800

Microsoft wins. They showered him with MS toys, MS training, and MS conferences. They recruited the guy as his settlement!

By: LoopSouth

LoopSouth — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:23:15 -0800

All my name got me is sand kicked in my face...

By: cnx

cnx — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:30:38 -0800

Last time I checked, MS certs cost a little more than an X-Box.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:46:22 -0800

Someone should send him a modchip.

By: Twang

Twang — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:11:00 -0800

Hey, look! Huge Corporation threatens harmless teenager with multi-liar legal brief, PR department has hissy fit, Huge Corporation finds someone who remembers how to play a human being. Takes me back to "Who Breaks a Butterfly On a Wheel"

By: Peter H

Peter H — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:05:47 -0800

oh boobie boobie

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:25:17 -0800

So all I need now is for them to produce a software package called ShonBanForth, and I'll get that XBox I never wanted. Crosses Fingers; holds breath in anticipation.

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:46:45 -0800

I guess they have to move those X-boxes somehow....

By: bradlands

bradlands — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:32:52 -0800

~I heard he was thisclose to renaming his website sunmikerowesystems.com after the settlement.~

By: stonerose

stonerose — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:17:43 -0800

Is it true he suffers from mikerowephallus and mikerowecephaly? Or perhaps, in light of his settlement, mikeroweorchidism...

By: LouReedsSon

LouReedsSon — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:17:58 -0800

Damn. I thought he would have done far better. Pity.