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Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-mo sentence
- carapace 9y agoUnbelievable travesty of justice.
- kolpa 9y agoMicrosoft leadership, from Nadella on down, has blood on their hands, callously lying to Federal authorities and weaponizing the courts to put an innocent man in jail, destroying a year of a man's life, disrupting the livelihoods of 100 honest working people, and creating tons of dangerous polluting electronic waste, just so they could steal $700K from their customers. Remember this next time you buy a Microsoft computer.
- craftyguy 9y agoExactly. This same business model would have worked out had he used Linux instead. My local old computer re-purposing shop exclusively uses Linux, and they offer classes for owners.
- captain_crabs 9y agoWhat can I do?
- MoBattah 9y agoNever work for Microsoft. Most of the HN community I bet works in the tech industry. Microsoft employees should make their stance known to management. This is reprehensible. Mo Battah is my real name and I will never work for Microsoft. I work for ethical companies.
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- Simulacra 9y agoAbsolutely atrocious. We’ve seen this time and again, technology companies placing exorbitant value in the courts on data that is essentially worth zero.
- kup0 9y agoThat Microsoft decided to pursue this, especially in an instance where the person being sentenced is doing good work, is just ethically bankrupt all around. Even the judge mentioned having a hard time sentencing him because of the work he has done. I know that my personal protest would do nothing, but this kind of operating corporate policy really just adds to my already strong disdain of Microsoft and companies that act like this. Zero nuance was applied in this case, and restore discs without licenses have zero value- Microsoft arguing otherwise is ridiculous. I only use Windows for one specific usage case, gaming, and if it wasn't for that (or if Linux ever gets far more gaming support), I will drop Windows permanently for Linux. I wish there was something we could do about this and the many injustices we say day-to-day, but I sure feel helpless.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y ago> "the person being sentenced is doing good work" No good deed goes unpunished.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoWhatever happened to the new friendly Microsoft?
- teddyh 9y agoIt was an illusion in the minds of some people. It always was.