Customers to pay MS´s legal bills?

<img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Not your sig. YOU! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Its pretty sad that a man as powerful as good ole gates has to push off his leagal bill on to us. It is not our fault he tried to monopolize the computer market and basically make him the ´GOD&quot; of the OS but hey i guess he is afraid to loose the money he made while taking a piss<img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> lol i mean seriously he makes probobly about what 100 bucks every minute right so if he took a dump average 20 minutes if ya got a good article in the paper he made 2000 bucks just pooping<img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> but yet he wants to pass on his legal bills to us the people WHO made him what he is today....but oh well i guess thats big buisness for ya gotta line their pockets with gold and screw the working man. Can´t gripe too much since i use his products on a daily basis. still though it sux that he has to pass his legal crap on us<img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> &quot;To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can&quot;

Some monies within companies is set for lrgal aspects. My auto insurance company for one. I was involved in an accident and was sued over it. the insurance company provided a lawer for my defence and did such a good jog, the plantif only recieved $2,750 instead of the $46,000 he wanted. My premiums pay for part of this to occure, and to me, it is worth it. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Bah! What are you all complaining about? Only 2% of the people who post here on TLR actually <i>buy </i> legitimate copies of MS products anyway <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

In this specific news topic, I very unwillingly feel the need to side with MS. *ducks to avoid lightning* This is because the lawyers who sued MS really are the only ones making out on this deal. These same lawyers are the ones to started the law suit for the benefit of the consumers and yet, really, it was so that they themselves would get filthy rich from the fees. What MS is saying is, OK, you get this one but we´ll just have to charge your clients, the consumers, for the cost of your work at these ridiculous rates, $3,000/hr. I am still choking over that! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_disapprove.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

good point esquilax <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> &quot;To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can&quot;

&quot;Only 2% of the people who post here on TLR actually buy legitimate copies of MS products anyway&quot; wow. that <i>many? </i> <i><b>..how I dearly wish I was not here.. </b> </i>

Well I was generous, because I didn´t think that anything would be gained by being conservative, Taw <img src=smilies/icon_smile_clown.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

This is nothing new. Every time some boob sues a company and gets $10 million in punative damages the consumers have to foot the bill. Do you expect the CEO of a company to take a hit, or the shareholders? Punative damages are supposed to punish companies, but they really punish consumers, unless the company goes out of business and then the employees are punished. This is a serious problem in our sue-happy society. Everything we buy would be a lot cheaper if we had a punative damage cap. But don´t expect to see it happen any time soon because congress is populated by a bunch of lawyers. Let´s get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

Perhaps so, but it doesn´t make it right <img src=smilies/icon_smile_disapprove.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. Hmm, &quot;sue-happy society&quot;? That´s America, not Australia <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

Esq, the US is so sue happy because jurys award too much too often. If awards were much lower or denied, then there would be less suits. My insurance company has a campain going on agaisnt those who have the bumper sticker on their cars taht says, &quot;Go ahead and hit me, I need the money&quot; because they advicate sueing. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_disapprove.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

@Fd That´s odd because that is exactly what those bumper stickers are meant to mean! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Final - In Australia, we don´t usually have the old &quot;if you win then you can pay us&quot; sort of agreements with lawyers, so suing is taken far more seriously here (and costs a lot more).