Microsoft Attacks Google on Copyright

The Microsoft Corporation has prepared a blistering attack on rival Google, arguing that the Web search leader takes a cavalier approach to copyright protection. The attack, such as it were, came from Microsoft's Associate General Counsel who was giving a speech to the Association of American Publishers...who have a copyright lawsuit against Google for the last sixteen months. So, an audience ready to hear about how Bad Google is.

Oh boy.

[Sneakernets]

Let the chairs fly!

Microsoft's half finished sentence.

[pallmall1]

From TFA:

Microsoft, he said, asks the copyrights owner for permission first...

They should have added:

...unless it's software.

Yeah...

[Moggyboy]

Microsoft guy: "And... and... stop creating tools that people actually find USEFUL and giving them out for FREE, goddamnit! And... and... ummm... Google is a stupid name... and... ummm..."

Bad Google

[ack154]

Just how is "Bad Google" these days? I haven't seen him in ages!

What is with the capital B?!

Re:Microsoft's half finished sentence.

[Austerity Empowers]

Microsoft asks the copyright owner for a business arrangement in which both parties can get rich at the expense of the consumer. That is somehow less evil because I used the "business" word.

Re:Microsoft's half finished sentence.

[j00r0m4nc3r]

asks the copyrights owner for permission

They ask permission like the mafia asks permission.

blistering?

[oohshiny]

Whining and throwing tantrums is not a "blistering attack".

Is this April 1st?

[tkrotchko]

This sounds like an April Fools article.

Next Article:
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Re:Oh boy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah because Google branded evil is so much better than Microsoft branded evil.

Re:More fun from TFA

[iluvcapra]

I'd love it if Google said something like..."All right , no soup for you" and then just delisted everything that had anything to do with them.

That comes dangerously close to Google abusing its search monopoly.

on mystupidsitcom.abc.disney.com

You mean mystupidsitcom.abc.disney.go.com. They paid a lot of money for the "go.com" TLD, and damn it they're gonna use it!

The real deal

[Vexorian]

Microsoft might be preparing the ground to a software patents law suit against google. They patented evil after all...

ouch!

[rilister]

"Competition is heating up between Google, the world's dominant search engine, and Microsoft, which recently entered the Web search market."

OUCH! That's gotta hurt...

Re:English?

[Anonymous Coward]

The whooshing sound you're hearing is the sentence-fragment joke whizzing over your head. Don't worry, you'll catch the next one.