Microsoft Losing Suit over Local College Student Representing Himself

What was the local college student crime to gain the attention and wrath from Microsoft? He sold two unopened software packages on eBay for $91 after he realized he had to reformat his hardrive in order to install the software, which he didn't care to do so. He tried to get his refund from the university bookstore but they refused. What to do? He auctioned the two unopened MS software on eBay. Microsoft took wind of it and to make a long story short they took him to court.

But so far, the local college student is winning with his countersuit. If MS offers an apology, Zamos, the college student, will be willing to drop the countersuit. MS refused to apologize.

Zamos said his countersuit, which includes allegations that Microsoft committed fraud and violated the Consumer Sales Practice Act, is more about principle. And his legal battle with Microsoft reflects the passion with which he is defending his case.

He said he spent hours in law libraries constructing his defense, learning the ropes of law to file more than a dozen motions himself. "I knew absolutely nothing when I started this,'' said Zamos, who plans to use his chemistry degree to work as a pharmaceutical researcher.

The court docket is voluminous, so much so that Judge John R. Adams has ordered both sides to stop filing motions until the March 25 case management meeting. Zamos said after talks with Microsoft's Cleveland attorneys that he believes at least one California attorney failed to research the company's claims and overstated its case in the initial suit. But without an apology, he said, he's not going anywhere but a courtroom, where he plans to act as his own lawyer and argue before a jury.

"Once they found out their mistake, they should have said they're sorry. And we could have been done with this a month ago,'' he said.
"They say I'm hassling them with my motions, but they sued me. I didn't sue them.

"I'm not asking for much, but apparently they think so. I mean, hey, apologize and pay off Kinko's'' for copies, he said.

Looks like Microsoft can't find a way to make used products illegal.

C'mon Microsoft, don't be such a weenie. Lick your wounds and apologize. Else, bloggosphere's going to take this like the wind in a wildfire!


Oh, yeah, this dude at one time was arrested after sneaking across a lawn with a can of spray paint in Ohio, heading toward the notoriously large Bush/Cheney sign in the yard of Summit CountyRepublican Chairman Alex Arshinkoff. Zamos was convicted of misdemeanor trespassing and criminal mischief.

Here's a video-tape. Not him, though, I suppose, but maybe his friends? But it did occur in Summit County.

He got his dues. Now, it's time for Microsoft to get some serious dues. I'm rootin for the little guy.