[ale] Take a look at a new M$ EULA

[Chris Woodruff]

This could be another EULA like the Passport fiasco a few months back (or
more recently).  I will be interested if this shows up in any of the tech
online news sites or tech rags soon and what the reaction will be.  I for
one will be keeping clear of .NET and WinXP.  Does anyone think M$ is
becoming like the IBM of old?  Bill gates always said long ago that
something would come out that would displace his company's lead.  He
probably just didn't think it would so soon and in the shape of Open/Free
Source.

Chris Woodruff
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From: "Fulton Green" <ale at FultonGreen.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Chris Woodruff" <cwoodruff at openpenguin.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Take a look at a new M$ EULA


> Interesting. For those that didn't want to bother with legalese, there's a
> clause that in effect prevents a prereleased mobile Internet toolkit to be
> distr'd with *anything* that M$ deems "open source" (GPL/LPGL, Artistic,
> Mozilla PL, among others, are mentioned).
>
> Nice touch in that the same paragraph also restricts the software from
being
> distro'd w/"potentially viral software". Such as IIS, I suppose? :)
>
> It doesn't surprise me, given the recent speeches out of Redmond. A
question,
> though ... reading through the legalese, this doesn't seem to exclude the
> BSD license, which allows proprietary derivatives. Also note that it
wasn't
> explicitly mentioned in the "blacklist".
>
> Thoughts ... ?
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/027/001/516/eula_mit.htm
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