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nová dvojka na trhu s IT a elektronikou Mironet.cz roste a rozšiřuje svůj tým nejvíce za svou historii. Nabízíme Vám možnost získat finanční odměny celkem za čtvrt milionu korun pokud, nám doporučíte vhodného zaměstnance či zaměstnankyni, kterého/kterou přijmeme

What kind of head hunting is that? They've sent this to me, their ordinary client.

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nameless and tired Cat Pöñíçkøvā

@ljs @oleksandr they are only number 2 because the previous number 2 was bought out and shut down by someone else
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nameless and tired Cat Pöñíçkøvā

@ljs @oleksandr this is also a lot how my corpo career path looks like
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@ljs They are pretty decent, actually. When I buy elextronics, I buy from them more often than from others. Not because their shop is near the place where I live, but also because the prices are often better than anywhere else, and when I had to return faulty DIMMs twice, they handled that with no issues.

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@oleksandr @ljs i think they're also known for having been a target of Microsoft/BSA "anti-piracy" bullying campaign in 2000s, to which they responded by replacing Windows with Linux on the PCs they sold

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@lkundrak @ljs didn't know that, any links to read for fun?

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@oleksandr @ljs my memory from these years is extremely blurry. but there appears to be something on wikipedia
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mironet#Kauza_Mironet_vs._Microsoft

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AGRO TURBO.EXE SATAN 🇺🇦🇨🇿

Edited 1 year ago

@ljs @oleksandr note the wikipedia article suggests it's actually been the other way around.
Mironet first decided to end their OEM volume licensing deal with MS and ship PCs with Linux by default. Then at some point MS retaliated and asserted they're installing Windows illegally and the police did a raid which harmed Mironet significantly, but didn't prove any wrongdoing (found some unregistered shareware tho!).

(IIRC at the time mironet were selling higher quality workstations, quiet PCs. not sure if they specialized in it.)

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@lkundrak @ljs

Závěrečný verdikt soudu nakonec přisoudil společnosti Mironet vyplacení kompenzace ve výši 32 milionů korun.

Nice! Wild 90s/2000s though.

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@ljs @oleksandr those where the days

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