http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1048246/microsoft-lawsuit-payouts-usd9-billion (Thursday, 14 July 2005)

Should Microsoft be rewarded for breaking the law, stealing the works of others, repackaging the code as their own, claiming the software tool as their own solution, failing to catch the stolen code in their own review process, and failing to follow through on time to release under the GPL license the source code as promised?

This is justice?

Microsoft admits acknowledging the source of the code embedded in WDUT, and by not sharing the source code for its modifications, or the tool itself, as required by the terms of GPL (GNU General Public License).

Galli also promised on November 13, 2009 that Microsoft would make the source code and the binaries for WDUT available the following week under the GPLv2 terms.

Why should anyone respect Microsoft for stealing open source code software, for breaking the law, for claiming the code was their own solution and for not keeping their word as promised to make available within the time frame the source code under the General Public License?

http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe (947KB file)
MD5: D5813F05661542E546133250172785DF

It’s very clear and obviously to everyone, by stealing the works of others and by claiming the code was their own, that makes Microsoft a Pirate of software! It’s disgusting because Microsoft own code review failed to discover their theft of software, making you wonder had Microsoft planned this all along, as they didn’t develop their own solution, despite being the world largest software developers or someting along those lines to that effect.

Nope, instead, Microsoft clearly sought and want after the works of other open source code developers, claimed it as their own, branded as Microsoft’s own and downplays th whole event as if breaking the law is okay for them to get away with. Perhaps, that explains why Microsoft has been found guilty in so many courts all over the world of wrong doing, having broken the laws in penalties greater than the sum of some 12 billion dollars! That’s a long history of breaking a lot of laws folks. There is more than enough good reason to surmise Microsoft cannot be trusted with it;s long, long history of infringement activities and anti-competitive behavior.

Embrace, extend and extinguish has remained a core strategy of Microsoft corporation. Let’s this be a lesson to all open source code software developers, NEVER trust Microsoft!

Just how much more open source intellectual property has Microsoft been hiding in it’s hidden proprietary software code?
What gives Microsoft the right to hide the evidence when they have been found guilty so many times? Nobody wants to hold them accountable, because they control a monopoly? So with this logic, the same would be said for Kim in North Korea, making nobody want to end that regime of oppression?

You really got to ask yourself, why didn’t Microsoft develop it’s own software solution to install Windows 7 without stealing the works of other developers?

fucking lame microsoft!!!!

I image they probably said something along the lines of “build us a tool that does X for X amount of dollars”. They then did a code review to check stability of the product and then took delivery. Once brought to their attention they acted in the manner consistent with the GPL. News @ 11.

On the other hand, they are taking their time with the source release.

Microsoft is NOT fixing “their code” it wasn’t theirs from the beginning! Microsoft stole the source code and claimed it as their own. Microsoft NEVER checked because they KNEW they had repackaged the source code, it wasn’t by accident, it had to be planned, premeditated in advance, as evident of the copy and paste tactics involved.

Microsoft didn’t “borrow” the works of other developers at all, they claimed it as their own!

Nobody should compare Microsoft with Sony, this was Microsoft’s own fault, they were the criminals, who stole the works of others claiming as their own.

That statement of apologizing is insufficient, as it’s no different than robbing a bank and then expecting to say, if I apologize by stealing the money, I get to keep it now?

Why should Microsoft be allowed to use the works of others to claim it as their own? Microsoft broke the law, and admited it, sonce they could hide it from the public anymore!

Rafeal is a hero, Microsoft should has been found guilty, and for that crime of stealing the works of others, having become pirates, they think just by saying no harm was done, that those developers work was stolen, just who are they kidding?

And “Jo Doe” thinks Microsoft “behaved well” as pirates, stealing the works of others, claiming the source code was their own!!!

We demand Justice! – Independent Business Foundation for Law and Order

I’m sure we all know the reasons behind Windows activation, Windows Update validation, Windows Genuine Advantage, DMI, TPM, WAT and of course HDCP all built into windows, and yet Microsoft went ahead and ripped off open source developer code, claimed it as their own, repackaged by adding their own Microsoft branding and criticizes GPL as “Cancer” when in FACT, it’s been Microsoft itself doing the harm all along!

Harming developers everyone, by locking them into Windows only, pre-load and pre-installed without refunds, even when you don’t agree to the EULA end user license agreement) having pre-paid for the Microsoft license if you wanted it or not. But wait, to insure open source cannot work with Windows, Microsoft forces it’s own digital signatures, knowing full well the cost of applying for the right to incude FREE open source code solutions to the public would prohibit developers working for free, to afford the huge high cost code signing certificates only Microsoft allows, as it holds the root keys, which come pre-installed and pre-loaded on Windows.

That makes FREE software anti-competitive, as it is forced by Microsoft to pay the Microsoft tax, and it’s more than you think, costing hundreds to thousands of dollars, yearly!

It’s also the same issues with patents, as the cost are greater than the public can afford, insuring Microsoft with it’s vast fortunes has claimed more than 6000 patents. What other software developer is going to be able to innovate knowing 6000 reasons why you cannot use those benefits, and yet is required to use Microsoft’s tools like .Net Framework, to build upon, instead only by Microsoft’s methods?

Microsoft couldn’t be worse, it has killed off developers and it’s gotten so bad, even Rafeal had noticed Microsoft isn’t developing it’s own solutions anymore, it’s stealing them from other developers. Why should open source developers produce free software for Microsoft to profit and gain only having stolen their work?

Just how many other open source software programs did Microsoft pirated into it’s hidden source code?

I’m a PC, pirated computer from Microsoft!