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towndwarfFrom http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=908066&fid=980
Microsoft's lawsuit against e-mail advertiser Amir Gans is part of the company's global campaign against junk mail.
How would you react if you received, as Gans did, a draft of a $50 million lawsuit from Microsoft?
Some companies would consider closing shop. Linspire chairman Michael Robertson, who founded MP3.com, was scared by a Microsoft lawsuit and reached a settlement that including changing the name of his company from Lindows to Linspire. If an American entrepreneur en route to an IPO folds before Microsoft, what will small fry from the Middle East do? This is where a tiny difference between the US and the Middle East apparently comes into play, or more specifically, between Washington State and Israel;
An American sued by Microsoft's legal dream team (read: Michael Robertson) rushes to the best lawyer he can afford. What does a Lod-based Israeli entrepreneur do under the same circumstances? He represents himself against the international software giant....
In his recently filed statement of defense, Gans makes several expected claims
- he claims that Microsoft and he are competitors in the e-advertising business
-, some poetic claims (a quote from Bill Gates' book, in which Gans claims that Gates proposes sending e-advertising messages),
- and one unexpected claim. Gans says that under the Computers Law, filtering and blocking junk e-mail is a criminal offense of bugging inter-computer communications. Gans claims that Hotmail, which filters Gans' e-mails, is the criminal.
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read more HERE: http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=908066&fid=980
Microsoft's lawsuit against e-mail advertiser Amir Gans is part of the company's global campaign against junk mail.
How would you react if you received, as Gans did, a draft of a $50 million lawsuit from Microsoft?
Some companies would consider closing shop. Linspire chairman Michael Robertson, who founded MP3.com, was scared by a Microsoft lawsuit and reached a settlement that including changing the name of his company from Lindows to Linspire. If an American entrepreneur en route to an IPO folds before Microsoft, what will small fry from the Middle East do? This is where a tiny difference between the US and the Middle East apparently comes into play, or more specifically, between Washington State and Israel;
An American sued by Microsoft's legal dream team (read: Michael Robertson) rushes to the best lawyer he can afford. What does a Lod-based Israeli entrepreneur do under the same circumstances? He represents himself against the international software giant....
In his recently filed statement of defense, Gans makes several expected claims
- he claims that Microsoft and he are competitors in the e-advertising business
-, some poetic claims (a quote from Bill Gates' book, in which Gans claims that Gates proposes sending e-advertising messages),
- and one unexpected claim. Gans says that under the Computers Law, filtering and blocking junk e-mail is a criminal offense of bugging inter-computer communications. Gans claims that Hotmail, which filters Gans' e-mails, is the criminal.
....
read more HERE: http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=908066&fid=980