Craigslist Responds To eBay: I Know You Are, But What Am I?
from the time-to-find-a-lawyer,-guys dept
After eBay released its side of the story in the eBay-Craigslist lawsuit, we noted that it looked pretty damning against Craigslist, but we wanted to hear Craig and Jim's side of the story. Well, their initial response isn't all that convincing. At best, it highlights a few points in the lawsuit and claims "but eBay did the same thing!" But, that's not at all accurate, unfortunately. eBay isn't suing Craigslist because it has a poison pill, or because it wants a staggered board or the right of first refusal agreement -- as Craigslist implies. It's suing because Craig and Jim put those provisions in place by themselves, without the wider consent of the board or eBay as a significant shareholder. In other words, Craigslist's response isn't on the meat of the lawsuit, and appears to be missing the point entirely. One would hope that their response in court has more substance.
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Stupid Arguement! by steveballmer on May 2nd, 2008 @ 5:53pm
Neither of them are important, only MS!@
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by Anonymous Coward on May 2nd, 2008 @ 6:20pm
Who really cares? I don't!
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Re: Stupid Arguement! by Hellsvilla on May 2nd, 2008 @ 6:36pm
dude, your blog sucks, stop spamming
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by Anonymous Coward on May 2nd, 2008 @ 6:36pm
Craigswhat?
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Re: Stupid Arguement! by Anonymous Coward on May 2nd, 2008 @ 6:39pm
Whens the zunephone coming out, monkeyboy?
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Suing without the IP? by astro73 on May 2nd, 2008 @ 11:27pm
It's a story about a lawsuit over something other than copyrights, patents, trademarks, or some other imaginary property? It can't be!
Seriously, one (or both) of them broke an agreement. I think this is one of the first legit suits I've heard in a while.
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Converted by Sean on May 3rd, 2008 @ 5:24am
OK, I was previously of the opinion that JKR had a case, but now OSC (don't you love the acronyms!) has convinced me otherwise.
I think my brother has Enders Game, I'll have to and re-read it.
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Re: Converted by Anonymous Coward on May 3rd, 2008 @ 9:06am
Wrong article, JKR doesn't care about craiglist, unless they are selling the new Lexicon.
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Re: Re: Converted by Anonymous Coward on May 3rd, 2008 @ 12:41pm
Bush doesn't care about black people.
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by jd on May 3rd, 2008 @ 5:41pm
Wow, a lot of highly irrelevant posts.
Anyway, the argument is poor mainly because few people have the faintest idea what this article is referencing. It's not like it is an issue that is ramphant in the media.
A link would be very helpful. In which case, Craig's list it itself is rather shady, and so it's ebay. Granted Craig's is haven for the lowly and not necessarily the nerd in the basement.
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Re: Stupid Arguement! by Anonymous Coward on May 3rd, 2008 @ 6:31pm
NEWSFLASH-
YOU DIDN'T GET YAHOO.
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ebay by thetechguyj on May 4th, 2008 @ 10:47am
e bay sucks craigs list is ok may be some one should come out with an aution that uses both concepts. that would be worth useing
tech
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by Overcast on May 4th, 2008 @ 1:18pm
Pay pal was enough to get me away from E-bay - Craigslist or not. Btu that being said - I sue craigslist quite a lot now.
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Re: ebay by Anonymous Coward on May 4th, 2008 @ 2:39pm
Well ebay is a combo in a way since you can both auction for items and have them sent to you or you can auction/buy them and pick them up locally.
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by Eliot on May 4th, 2008 @ 8:13pm
Non Sequitor is Latin for 'it does not follow.'
Seriously, what the hell is with all the randomly useless crap posted as comments?
Back on topic: I think that Craigslist may have messed up. We'll have to see what happens.
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Did eBay break the law or fly below the radar? by lecllc1157 on May 4th, 2008 @ 9:04pm
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