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Comment Re:Cool hobby! (Score 1) 98

by stirbu on Sunday September 02, 2007 @07:20AM (#20439611) Attached to: Google Geek's Photos of the Famous

20% of time ought to be enough to find Matt

Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion 508

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @10:48AM from the everyone-get-their-doctor-evil-fingers-up dept.

Snowgen writes "Viacom has filed a $1,000,000,000.00 lawsuit for 'massive intentional copyright infringement' against Google over YouTube video clips. '"YouTube's strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site," Viacom said in a statement. "Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws.'"

OpenOffice.org Tries to Woo Dell 316

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @09:57AM from the maybe-they-need-to-hire-professional-wooers dept.

Rob writes "OpenOffice.org project members have written to Dell (pdf), hoping to persuade the company to adopt OpenOffice in response to customer demand. John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org marketing project lead, writes 'Let's have a conversation about how we could build an OpenOffice.org supplied by Dell product to give your customers what they are asking for.' Demand for open source products on Dell's IdeaStorm web site prompted the letter. A somewhat obvious question is raised: why isn't OpenOffice already available by default on new PC's and Workstations?"

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