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Mouse designer roars at Microsoft with lawsuit (InfoWorld)

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Matt Ion

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Dec 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/16/98
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:58:16 -0500, swor...@NTRNET.NET wrote:

>PS. Try not to attatch the perl script next time

I know, sorry... just hit File->Send Page in Nutscrape.


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swor...@ntrnet.net

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Dec 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/17/98
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In <36789990...@soundy.ml.org>, on 12/16/98 at 09:41 PM,
Matt Ion <sou...@SOUNDY.ML.ORG> said:


>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?981215.ecmouse.htm
>-<Attachment #1, displayStory.pl (7833 bytes), text/html 7bit>-

I really hope he wins... He may have been shocked but I think Microsoft
considers it normal business practise. I have heard stories similar to
his before but I can't recall any particulars.

PS. Try not to attatch the perl script next time


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Dec 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/19/98
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>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:58:16 -0500
>From: swor...@NTRNET.NET

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>In <36789990...@soundy.ml.org>, on 12/16/98 at 09:41 PM,
> Matt Ion <sou...@SOUNDY.ML.ORG> said:
>
>
>>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?981215.ecmouse.htm
>>-<Attachment #1, displayStory.pl (7833 bytes), text/html 7bit>-
>
>I really hope he wins... He may have been shocked but I think Microsoft
>considers it normal business practise. I have heard stories similar to
>his before but I can't recall any particulars.
>
At http://www.nurwibsco.com/iedeath.htm you can see proof that MS used
unregistered shareware from a Canadian company, Alchemy Mindworks, to build
the animated GIFs in IE. (You also get a free anti-MS rant, complete with
conspiracy stuff, but it's in relatively good humor for such things.) To
find the relevant paragraph quickly, try a search on "Canada" (Ctrl-S in
WebEx).

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