April 22, 2009
Pwned
— srikanth @ 10:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240440322 ) 
Play
Play Guest question by p vs np
The guy should be considered a creative-genius. His weapon of choice was his name and with it he decided to put a multi-national in hot soup a few years ago. Id and put fundae.
Moar guest questions to boiledbeans@gmail.com plzkthx.
Cracked by shrik , Raghuvansh , shenoyvarun86 , RON , Atul Mathew , sidsen , Higgers , Vijay Shankar , foobar , dheeraj , Shrey Goyal , Siddharth Jain , svgreatest , nakul.sangolli@gmail.com , malcaluffin , alephnull , Rishabh Kaul , Arjun , Bipin Banavalikar and Debasish.
Check out p vs np’s comment for the answer.
Subscribe
Play
Lite Version
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240440686 )
Mike Rowe set up MikeRoweSoft.com and p*ssed off M$. Here seen with (I think) the documentation form that case that he sold on eBay.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:59 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240441195 )
Mike Rowe, of MikeRoweSoft fame.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240441563 )
MikeRoweSoft.com!
Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240445488 )
mike crowe –created website mike-rowe soft.com which was synonymous to microsoft
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240446694 )
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240449218 )
Mike Rowe – his site was mikerowesoft.com and MS threatened to sue him for using the domain.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240450326 )
mike row
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240451018 )
Mike Rowe, mikerowesoft.com
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240451828 )
ID: Mike Rowe, a Canadian high school student then.
Funda: The famous lawsuit in 2004, concerning the domain name MikeRoweSoft.com which was settled by the provision of training and a lot of freebies by Microsoft!!
For info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikeRoweSoft.com
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240452866 )
Mike Rowe of http://www.mikerowesoft.com
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240455254 )
The guy in the photo is Mike Rowe, a student from Victoria, British Columbia, who started a website called as mikerowsoft.com which phonetically is similar to the evil microsoft.com. He is holding documents from the lawyers of microsoft demanding that he give up the domain name.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240457730 )
Microsoft vs MikeRoweSoft
(Goliath vs David )
lawsuit against Canadian kid who owned a domain name based on his name+soft(thought it was funny adding soft) which coincidentally has similar phonetics to MicroSoft!!
(trademark infringement…din get the joke in “soft”)
Out of the court settlement
XBOX+ games
Microsoft certification training
……..
(rest of it on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe_(student)
)
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:42 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240465328 )
Mike Rowe, who launched MikeRoweSoft.com
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240467829 )
In ‘03, Canadian student Mike Rowe, thought it would be amusing to set up a website MikeRoweSoft.com named after himself. As usual Microsoft didn’t didn’t it funny, and there was a big legal dispute – eventually they settled for an out-of-court settlement
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240471002 )
Mike Rowe
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240472610 )
Mike rowe of mikerowesoft fame. Clever bugger :)
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240474999 )
Mike Rowe. He was in a row with Mocrosoft over his domain name..
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240475364 )
Mike Rowe, who thought it would be fun to add a \
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240475401 )
“soft” to his name and register a domain
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240475435 )
For the love of Mike, fix the quoting problem in the comments.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:39 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240475998 )
The lad is Mike Rowe, his websites name was Mikerowesoft.com. MS sent the lawyers on his ass who at first cheekily wanted to settle with him for 10 USD
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240511233 )
Mike Rowe, who registered the domain mikerowesoft.com and had a legal battle with microsoft…
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:31 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240515119 )
Orkut Büyükkökten
In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based Orkut.com on code for InCircle, an application intended for university alumni groups. The allegation is based on the alleged presence of nine identical bugs in Orkut.com and in InCircle
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240519434 )
Pic is of Mike Rowe.
He registered for domain name ‘MikeRoweSoft.com’ which created a legal dispute with ‘Microsoft’ about trademark infringement
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:15 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240521347 )
Mike Rowe?
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1240524832 )
Mike Rowe, of MikeRoweSoft fame.
April 24th, 2009 at 12:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1240533069 )
Mike RoweSoft.
Started a website in that name that beacame a problem for Microsoft as it sounded similar to theirs!