Courts Stop MSFT Selling Old Windows in China

[JMcEntegart]

A Chinese court has stopped the sale of many versions of Microsoft Windows because of a violation of a licensing agreement.

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[leafblower29]

Well China has a lot of piracy so I doubt for old windows versions it won't make a big difference.

 

[wildwell]

Since when does China care about protecting intellectual property!?
Hypocritical bullsh*ters!

 

[JofaMang]

They are just pissed that they can't get royalties from the pirate printing factories? I don't get it, but wildwell nailed it.

 

[jerther]

Weezer's Buddy Holly because it came bundled with Windows 95.

HAHAHA! Yeah! I've watched this so many times That and the other music video with that angry old woman that gets splashed by a car

"Good times, bad times every body get up!"

 

[gpj]

How can you copy protect "letters" from a language (which is essentially what a font is). The Chinese Government probably got the patent in Texas.

 

[belardo]

We are not all stupid in Texas.

 

[azcoyote]

China cares about IP!! If the IP is theirs and/or they get a chance to rape the Western world!

CHINA = PURE EVIL

 

[falchard]

I think its Microsoft's attempt to make China stop buying Windows XP and move on to Windows 7. Its like "Hey we used your font in Windows '95, can you sue us for using your font in these Windows OS as well so we can stop selling them and not look like the bad guy?"

 

[Guest]

@Jerther:
It's "Good times, bad times, give me some of that." The song is "Good Times" by Edie Brickell.

Yeah, I used to think being able to watch videos on my PC like the ones on the Win95 CD was one of the greatest things since sliced bread. Of course the MPEG versions wouldn't even play until I upgraded my 486SX 25MHz with an Evergreen 133MHz in the co-processor slot XD

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Is it just me... or does it seem like all the big companies know how to do now a days is fuck up?

 

[Guest]

"and Weezer's Buddy Holly because it came bundled with Windows 95."

Haha yeah I remember watching that. That was soo long ago.

 

[arlandi]

Weezer! Cool!
i wonder what took Zhongyi Electronics a long time to sue? Windows 98 is like ages ago!!

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]gpj[/nom]How can you copy protect "letters" from a language (which is essentially what a font is). The Chinese Government probably got the patent in Texas.[/citation]
You can copyright any font you create because fonts are a form of art. In fact it's a rather old and very lucrative business, and there are many companies entirely devoted to creating and licensing fonts. "Times New Roman" is copyrighted, for example.

 

[ch42832n]

China's count decision won't make a dent in MSFT profit because everyone is using bootleg copy of MS windows in China...