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Anybody else have an issue with Microsoft starting out using Harvard's computer to develop their first product (for free)? Theft of services to me...
by hsnewman 12y ago
Anybody else have an issue with Microsoft starting out using Harvard's computer to develop their first product (for free)? Theft of services to me...
- joslin01 12y agoYea, seriously! Harvard should sue. If it wasn't for Harvard providing that computer (FOR FREE!!), Microsoft wouldn't even exist. These guys man. They just show no respect. Harvard deserves at least 10% -- maybe even 20% -- of M$ for their seed investment of a (FREE!!) computer to hack on. And if you tell Harvard this and they go ahead and sue and get 20% I'm gonna sue the shit out of you if you don't somehow get Harvard to give me some of that percentage because they wouldn't have even thought to do it if it wasn't for this (FREE!!) comment.
- bruceb 12y agoHarvard's endowment is $36billion. I think they are doing ok.
- morganvachon 12y agoNo, because a computer is a tool, and if you lend your tools to someone who then makes money from their own creations, they don't owe you a dime. Now, if you rent your tools to them and they don't pay rent you can probably sue them for it, but it still doesn't entitle you to ownership of their IP. That's simply not how the world works.