PR NIGHTMARE: MIKE-ROWE-SOFT, UPDATE Microsoft
Posted by Douglas Sorocco, January 21, 2004 at 6:41 am
PR NIGHTMARE: MIKE-ROWE-SOFT, UPDATE
Microsoft appears to have backed down on its PR nightmare copyright infringement charges it was threatening against Mike Rowe (additional links below), a 17 year old Canadian website developer.
The unfortunate side effect: Mike Rowe was more than likely infringing upon Microsoft's intellectual property rights and Microsoft's heavy-handed approach has landed them in a PR nightmare. Enforcing your intellectual property rights is mandatory: how you go about it, however, makes all the difference.
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