Posted on 06/21/2018 7:59:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives
Today, Eric Lundgren turned himself in to the Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution, where he will spend the next fifteen months isolated from society, the internet, and his business. His crime? Helping recyclers restore Windows onto Dell laptops.
Eric is an e-waste recycling pioneer—one man’s trash is literally his treasure. He was one of the first recyclers handling lithium car batteries at scale. By developing new, innovative testing processes, he was able to reuse over 50% of a car’s dead battery cells for new products. To prove the batteries still worked, he built a car out of other people’s trash and set the Guiness world record for the furthest traveled on a single charge: 999.5 miles.
Eric is a force for good in the world. But for now, that force will be walled off from the world behind razor wire and armed guards.
That’s a shame, and it’s Microsoft’s fault. While the DOJ prosecuted the case, they were aided every step of the way by ‘expert witnesses’ from Microsoft’s anti-trafficking team. Plenty of people have dug into Microsoft’s claims and the weeds of his case, but at this point the details are moot. Eric’s turned himself in and he’s not going anywhere for a good while.
That’s a tragedy, and it didn’t need to happen. There are a lot of good people at Microsoft and they make some tremendous products. We love the XBox One and its super-repairable controller. But Eric is just the latest victim—Microsoft has been systematically stymieing your right to fix the things you own. From insidious warranty-void-if-removed stickers to sending lobbyists to fight common-sense right to repair laws, Microsoft has willfully made the e-waste problem worse. And now they’re imprisoning the very guy who was working to clean up their mess.
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15 months in prison.
How many months in prison for the top echelon of the FBI tampering with a Presidential election? Comey? McCabe? Strzok? Page? The operatives in Fusion GPS? Will any of them see a single day in jail for a far more serious crime than recycling old PCs?
They guy was trying to sell counterfeit Windows recovery discs. If he was counterfeiting my company’s product I too would want him jailed. All of the enviro feel good tripe seems to ask us to justify his crime because he is an environmentalist.
The FBI gang skating on far more serious crimes doesn’t lessen this guys actions or justify letting him off. But they too think they should skate because they had the right politics.
But it does show how the FBI gang should serve some serious time.
Precisely
“The FBI gang skating on far more serious crimes doesn’t lessen this guys actions or justify letting him off.”
It kinda does. A cop taking bribes should lose all ability to prosecute others. The FBI is a corrupt organization through and through. From agents shooting at LaVoy Finicum and covering it up, to being rife with leaks, to widespread participation in the sedition plot...the FBI has lost all moral authority to enforce any laws.
This is why we have jury nullification. We need to start using it. It isn’t just for OJ anymore.
Microsoft will have everyone renting Windows.
They started testing this with Office several years ago and now Office 365 is here. Adobe does the same with their products. As long as you have a license you can download their latest products. There will be no disks in the near future.
I dumped Microsoft a long time ago. My aging computer was a windows 8 laptop. I bought it at a bargain price from a pawn shop. It ran slower than cold molasses running up hill. So I wiped the drive and put Linux mint 18.2 on it. Recently, I upgraded to 18.3. This thing runs like a champ and isn’t overheating my laptop.
I love it!
Laws and morals are two different things. I don’t want the state enforcing morals. Law enforcement should be a local and state issue. All Federal law enforcement should be eliminated except those that are directly proscribed in the Constitution.
Microsoft makes these discs FREE for download. All this guy did was burn them to CDs and make them available to the people who bought the used PCs. Microsoft lied and said the discs were full copies of Windows and said he cost them Millions of dollars.
How does a product given away for free cost a company millions of dollars?
If I were on a jury or grand jury, I'd laugh at any evidence presented by the FBI. At best, it is of no more use than your average hearsay.
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