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To: Scrapps who wrote (21975)	1/20/2004 6:03:09 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 22053

Scrapps, that truly is a travesty. There is a "likelihood of confusion" clause in these kinds of cases. Confusing a 17-year old kid using "MikeRoweSoft", with MSFT seems quite unlikely for all except the most inbred. Knowing my own "Reference Deleted Wire" pains with a certain press wire firm a few years back, I feel his pain. I wonder how much Gates needed that $1000 bux. When John Gotti got booked on his final RICO charge, he was taking Sammy the Bull and Frankie Loc out for pizza. He had $5000 on him that night. Sammy had $3000 on him. That's just what they normally carried when "Gambino Family, Inc." was running in excess of $500 million gross annual revenue. Poor guys probably tore out their trouser linings and got leg spasms from that pocket change. I'd have thought Gates might feel their pain, but maybe he was strapped for the pizza tip that night. <gg>

To: Scrapps who wrote (21975)	1/20/2004 8:41:55 AM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

The kid was in a hell of a strong position until he flippantly demanded ten grand. That weakened his case and helped Mr. Softie. They'll settle it quietly and for undisclosed terms. Microsoft already has a black eye over this, and they don't need a bloody nose to go with it. At the same time, they don't want to encourage everyone to go figure out a way to raid their treasury by registering look-alike domains. That's what they should've in the first place, since going public with it resulted in: "Microsoft's legal department may be busier than they anticipated during the next few months, because in the past four days all the top level domain extensions for mikerowesoft (.co.uk, .net, .org and .tv) have been snapped up. Mikerowesoft.tv has been put up for sale on eBay." I'd say the legal department got caught sleeping at the wheel this time. Imagine this: www.mikerowesoft.com - your Linux distributor!