[ale] MS Propaganda representative

[Jim Philips]

On Monday 15 April 2002 10:20 am, Jeff Rose wrote:
> Hello all,
> 	Tomorrow a MS representative is scheduled to be a guest speaker in my
> software engineering class at GSU.  He will be explaining the wonder
> that will be .Net.  I have obtained a copy of .Net (has and will not be
> installed).  Reading the EULA is quite scary and makes me more than a
> little angry.  It basically says any code written with it may not be
> freely redistributed and must be copyrighted with as much protection as
> Visual Studio .Net.  Kind of the antithesis of GPL. It also prohibits
> the programmer from developing software that directly competes with MS
> Access.  

Suppose a .Net service uses Access as a client for a MySQL database using 
ODBC. Does that bother them? Who determines what "directly competes" with MS 
Access? And just for jollies, ask him about the "Hailstorm" initiative that 
MS just killed due to lack of interest. Pretend you didn't know it was 
already dead.

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