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What the hell is click-fraud?

Is it also against the law to go to a car lot, talk to a salesman, and not buy?
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GORDON wrote:What the hell is click-fraud?

Is it also against the law to go to a car lot, talk to a salesman, and not buy?
You hire people to do clickthrus for you, I believe.
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I aint planning on hiring anyone.

People will hate on law firms for free.
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Click fraud is any sorta of clicking for purposes other than actual interest in the link/product/whatever.

Google'd just refund them the money. No harm.
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I think there were bots being used on the click-fraud thing.
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LG crumbles like a prison bitch.
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From the article
That implies that the two companies have agreed that the technology to which Microsoft gains access is more valuable than the Microsoft technology claimed to be part of Linux.

That's really interesting.
Wadda mean? Other people can read this?!
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Same payment arrangement with Novell too.
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TheCatt wrote:Same payment arrangement with Novell too.
Ruthless mofos at MS. If the ensuing legal battle wouldn't cost millions of dollars, I could see a shitload more resistance to this technological strongarming. As it is, it looks cheaper to play ball w\ MacroShaft than to resist them. & they wonder why their image looks so bad.
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It's a Microsoft world, we just live in it.
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Jesus, apparently this policy has been working.
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Sounds like some of the Linux groups that used to be all about Damning the Man are taking this opportunity to sign up to become the Man themselves.
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TPRJones wrote:Sounds like some of the Linux groups that used to be all about Damning the Man are taking this opportunity to sign up to become the Man themselves.
Either MS's claims have some merit or everyone is just taking this shot to latch onto the proverbial 800# gorilla.
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