MikeRoweSoft.com
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- Casio_Nova
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/int…
What can you do with your name?
- terlizzi0
Thats Great!! haha : )
- JazX0
wow, what a bunch of shit, I would tell BGates to shove it and find a nice lawyer to give them the middlefinger, otherwise those bitches can pay me a lot! ;)
- bug0
- Mimio0
I think MS can make a solid argument that this kid was intentionally trying to make reference to their identity.
- bug0
he didn't name himself Mike Rowe...and something like MikeRoweWave.com doesn't seem to be as cool...
- Mimio0
I doubt this kid is going to get a large settlement. Some IP lawyers are going to get some money.
- buddylee0
"Rowe, a 17-year-old high school senior and Web designer from Victoria,"
Damn, everyone is a Web designer.
- jevad0
go mike!
- Casio_Nova0
He should call it MikeRowe'sOffToGetPaid!.com
- JazX0
<--- ya think? ;)
- Mimio0
Donvitoviti is a newbie.
qburt is not.
- sweetasbro0
"Donvitoviti is a newbie."
So is Casio_Nova, do a search on this topic in PV-AN and you'll see why
- benfal990
his site is down since this morning. That news is E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E today.... he surely got 1 trillion hits on his page
Tanx Microsoft! :D
- welded0
The kid'll be fine. Sure he obviously was aware of the similarity (it was his intention, after all) but he could argue it's in parody for one. Secondly there is no WAY anybody is going to mistake www.mikerowesoft.com with www.microsoft.com, and that is really the issue here. It's the lad's name, Microsoft can't make him change *that*!
The whole thing is absurd. Funny, though, since Microsoft had such a big problem with Lindows, but not with naming a game Mythic, despite a competetor being named Mythica... Whatta bunch of crazy cats!
- benfal990
he's strong, he can do whatever he want, microsoft < he think
- canuck0
So this kid has been bumped up to a software writer now eh?
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- Bluejam0
tomorROWE he's gonna wake up a nobody just like before.
hope he enjoy's his fifteen minutes...they don't last long.