Microsoft Admits That MikeRoweSoft Threat Is A Publicity Nightmare

from the make-it-go-away dept

Instead of sticking to their legal guns, it appears that someone with a little more business sense noticed all of the publicity over the whole MikeRoweSoft flap, and has decided it's much better to just make this go away. Thus, Microsoft is now admitting that, perhaps, they went a little too far in their legal threats to Mike Rowe, and are talking with him to come to an amicable agreement that will get this story out of the news as quickly as possible.

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    Ed Halley, Jan 20th, 2004 @ 9:44am

    One problem is the rogue nature of many companies' legal teams. If they had to mention every lawsuit proposal in a meeting with marketing and relations veeps, a lot of these over-aggressive lawsuits would disappear.

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