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> but we failed to give you the attribution you, that was a mistake and I’m sorry. In other words: there exists some responsible person at Microsoft who violat

> but we failed to give you the attribution you, that was a mistake and I’m sorry. In other words: there exists some responsible person at Microsoft who violated the copyright (yes, removing the attribution is also a copyright violation!) for Microsoft. In consideration how Microsoft has been treating copyyright violators for decades, if Microsoft does not give this responsible person the same crual treatment, it should be considered an honest, clear, implicit official statement from Microsoft's side that they are perfectly fine if hackers violate all of Microsoft's copyright. In other words: it means that all of Microsoft's software now (spiritually!) will become public domain. Also, if Microsot does not make make this responsible person pay the caused damage from their own pocket to the original author of Spegel with the same monatery magnitude as if Microsoft would sue other entities for a violation of copyyright of Microsoft's software, the same statement applies.

throwaway642012 2y ago
Based on the initial commits and the logs after that surely there’s someone unethical person at MS. This might have been brushed under the carpet and due to sheer luck it reached HN frontpage. https://github.com/Azure/peerd/commit/64b8928943ddd73691d0b5d80609a2e134a96c77 https://github.com/Azure/peerd/commit/64b8928943ddd73691d0b5...
9_ZPK7- 2y ago
> it means that all of Microsoft's software now (spiritually!) will become public domain. You have said many things like this in this thread. I don't think you understand how laws or courts or legal fees work. Good luck defending yourself against MS's army of lawyers during your court proceedings though!
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  > I don't think you understand how laws or courts or legal fees work. Good luck defending yourself against MS's army of lawyers during your court proceedings though! I have no hope that the courts currently (!) agree with this. But let us spread the gospel so that as many people as possible know how Microsoft's "real" stance on copyright is. If a lot of people become aware of this and this truth stays in lots of people's heads for a sufficiently long time, the public opinion might change so that juries (representing the public opinion in courts) will indeed begin to judge against Microsoft in the way that I described.
  - saagarjha 2y ago
    If I accidentally pick up your jacket instead of mine and apologize when you point it out this doesn't mean I give you blanket rights to steal my stuff forever. If I keep doing it, then it's probably worth looking into, but you're going to have to bring up evidence of serial abuse for that.
    - Tepix 2y ago
      What if someone takes your jacket and removes your name tag and sews his own tag to your jacket though?
      - saagarjha 2y ago
        You still can't steal their jacket.
  - robertlagrant 2y ago
    > the public opinion might change so that juries (representing the public opinion in courts) will indeed begin to judge against Microsoft in the way that I described I'm pretty sure that's exactly how juries shouldn't work.
RayVR 2y ago
https://google.github.io/opencasebook/remedies/ https://google.github.io/opencasebook/remedies/

throwaway642012 2y ago

Based on the initial commits and the logs after that surely there’s someone unethical person at MS. This might have been brushed under the carpet and due to sheer luck it reached HN frontpage. https://github.com/Azure/peerd/commit/64b8928943ddd73691d0b5d80609a2e134a96c77 https://github.com/Azure/peerd/commit/64b8928943ddd73691d0b5...

9_ZPK7- 2y ago

> it means that all of Microsoft's software now (spiritually!) will become public domain. You have said many things like this in this thread. I don't think you understand how laws or courts or legal fees work. Good luck defending yourself against MS's army of lawyers during your court proceedings though!

aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> I don't think you understand how laws or courts or legal fees work. Good luck defending yourself against MS's army of lawyers during your court proceedings though! I have no hope that the courts currently (!) agree with this. But let us spread the gospel so that as many people as possible know how Microsoft's "real" stance on copyright is. If a lot of people become aware of this and this truth stays in lots of people's heads for a sufficiently long time, the public opinion might change so that juries (representing the public opinion in courts) will indeed begin to judge against Microsoft in the way that I described.
- saagarjha 2y ago
  If I accidentally pick up your jacket instead of mine and apologize when you point it out this doesn't mean I give you blanket rights to steal my stuff forever. If I keep doing it, then it's probably worth looking into, but you're going to have to bring up evidence of serial abuse for that.
  - Tepix 2y ago
    What if someone takes your jacket and removes your name tag and sews his own tag to your jacket though?
    - saagarjha 2y ago
      You still can't steal their jacket.
- robertlagrant 2y ago
  > the public opinion might change so that juries (representing the public opinion in courts) will indeed begin to judge against Microsoft in the way that I described I'm pretty sure that's exactly how juries shouldn't work.

RayVR 2y ago

https://google.github.io/opencasebook/remedies/ https://google.github.io/opencasebook/remedies/