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Offline Ni72ousTopic starter

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Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« on: July 20, 2003, 01:28:33 PM »
A NOTICE posted on Roger McGuinn's web site said he will sue Microsoft for allegedly using four notes of the Byrds' song Eight Miles High.

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The Inquirer Article

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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2003, 01:32:08 PM »
Geez, get a life.  Sounds like trying to copyright the word "Windows" to me.
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2003, 01:34:38 PM »
:crazy:

This is even more silly than the Metallica spoof :).
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2003, 02:06:23 PM »
If you think this is stupid, then the french take the biscuit IMO, they are trying to ban the phrase email, they would prefer to call it "courrier electronique"

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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2003, 02:17:07 PM »
It's not stupid, it's french. They already use MegaOctet (Mo) instead of MegaByte (Mb)
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2003, 03:08:38 PM »
@NitrousB

Yeah, the current French authorities seem to have a real superiority complex when it comes to using foreign languages in day to day speech. They do everything to stop English words sneaking into life in France. I can see why they want to preserve the French language, but from here what they're doing looks like pure arrogance.
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2003, 04:10:58 PM »
Is that a new class of stupid I was previously unaware of? :-)
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2003, 04:13:02 PM »
@ KennyR

Presumably their next move is to stop any businesses from having foreign-sounding names if they want to trade in France? :-)
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2003, 04:56:38 PM »
Is this for real??

 If you follow the links at the bottom of the inquirer article, you go to the article where it says he cancelled the lawsuit because he remembers he stole those 4 notes from somebody else.
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2003, 05:04:47 PM »
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Yeah, the current French authorities seem to have a real superiority complex when it comes to using foreign languages in day to day speech. They do everything to stop English words sneaking into life in France. I can see why they want to preserve the French language, but from here what they're doing looks like pure arrogance.
well, to be fair, the French have been VERY protective of the language forever. I mean, they have always been like this. My mother is a polyglot and i have some insight into this.  :-D

you may find it silly or even stupid. Personally, i have no feelings about it. it's their language and they have the right to do whatever they wish. Anyway, these rules are made by a bunch of scolars who announce these things. Language is a flexible, living thing. And slang and new words get used by the regular people all the time.
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2003, 07:55:57 PM »
That's "courriel", and it sounds much better than e-mail.
And it's off-opic as well.
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2003, 11:18:22 PM »
Apparently the lawsuit is being dropped because he remembered that he didn't write those four notes

Cancelled
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2003, 11:24:38 PM »
@KennyR:  Whenever the French minister visits America, he speaks exclusively in French.  He speaks PERFECT English, but he won't utter a word of it.  Yes, it is complete arrogance.

Of course, that was pre-911.  I don't know if anyone French would be caught dead in my country, now.  Same Stupid, Different Day.   ;-)
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2003, 11:47:24 PM »
If the frrench want to change the names of things then let them it does not effect me email is email to me if the french change the name to suit there langauge it is only them it will effect .Besides the thread is not about the french . :-o  :-)
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Re: Microsoft to be sued over xp closing down music
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2003, 09:01:23 AM »
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He speaks PERFECT English, but he won't utter a word of it.


How do you know he speaks perfect english if he won't utter a word of it?  :-D
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