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Re: [Full-Disclosure] NINCOMPOOPERY OF MICROSOFT
- To: Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com>
- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] NINCOMPOOPERY OF MICROSOFT
- From: Stormwalker <bruen@coldrain.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:25:13 -0400 (EDT)
IANAL, but I know that the legal system is divided into a criminal
piece and a civil piece. Criminals are those who break criminal law.
Civil proceedings tend to be about business disputes, lawsuits, divorces,
etc, where the court acts like a third party mediator.
cheers, bob
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> This user Bullmur should be carefull with the word "criminal".
>
> Question to the lawyers on the list: It is my understanding that
> "criminal" is someone who breaks the law. microsoft seem to have been
> found guilty by a court in the antitrust trial, so they seem to have
> broken the law.
>
> Are microsoft criminals from legal point of view?
>
> Or does justice work this way: if you deface a website, you are a
> criminal, but if you screw most of the internet you are a hero?
>
> georgi
>
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:54:12 -0700
> <dhtml@hush.com> wrote:
>
> > "Hackers are criminals" Most, he notes, release their malicious code
> > after patches for Microsoft software have been released, meaning that
> > they are simply reverse engineering to exploit security weaknesses or
> > holes in software. - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
> >
> > 'ninkum`poop [n] a stupid foolish person See Also: simple, simpleton
> >
> >
>
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