Our Microsoft story - If imitation is the best form of flattery – we are flattered!
More than 5000 websites and newspapers have picked up our story - Microsoft software - 'The Product is licensed, not sold' – and not even ten percent of them credited the story to us. Some of them were so blatant and careless that they mentioned the name of TIOL in their stories without telling their readers what TIOL is. Many of the foreign websites and newspapers have given us credit and given links to our website, many of the Indian websites and other media made it as their story without really knowing what the story is all about. Of course while some of the Indian media like CNBC carried our editor's voice bites and SIFY gave credit to us, there were many who carried our story as theirs. There were a few websites who mentioned TIOL without telling their readers what TIOL is. But we found that most of the foreign sites and news media were graceful to mention the source to us and even give a link to our site, many of the Indian sites and newspapers carried pathetic reproduction of our story without giving us any credit.
The fact is nobody has the order except us and they all wanted stories. And they used ours!