When a multi billion dollar company sends out high priced lawyers to lean on and threaten lawsuits against individuals poking pointed, yet good natured fun at the company, it's practices and it's leader I think we can all agree that things have gone too far - I mean it's not like someone advocates throwing pies at the CEO, god forbid!
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1) "Get the T-shirt vendor first, we'll deal with the Justice Department later"
Obviously lawyers at Microsoft don't have enough to do. When a small time T-shirt maker was having success with a T-shirt that poked some pointed fun at Bill Gates and his company, the result was a call from Microsoft lawyers threatening a lawsuit. The upshot was to save expense the T-shirt was pulled from the market. See the images below that threatened the foundations of Microsoft and the story that explains it all.
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2) Beware
the Microsoft Cartoon Censor
Using Microsoft's products to create web animations? Microsoft would like to tell you what you can and can't do with them - see full story
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