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"According to this Seattle Times article, Microsoft is sending letters to Utah's Attorney General in support of the company, but with fake signatures of citizens (some of whom are dead!). The article says: "Letters sent in the last month are on personalized stationery using different wording, color and typefaces, details that distinguish Microsoft's efforts from lobbying tactics that go on in politics every day. State law-enforcement officials became suspicious after noticing that the same sentences appear in the letters and that some return addresses appeared invalid."" The original source appears to be this story in the LA Times today. We here at Slashdot would like to take the time to say that strong competition and innovation have been the twin hallmarks of the technology industry, and if the future is going to be as successful as the recent past, the technology sector must remain free from excess regulation.

 

Miscrosoft is just playing the game the way it's always been played. They just got caught doing it.

 

I agree with that ... Besides, they have enough money to hire people to do these sorta stuff anyway. Talk about MS technology, they probably have an auto scripting bot to do all the work, like search for addresses and owners from the whitepages ... While the hired people have to do is sign or something like that.