[ale] MS Propaganda representative

[Tommie M. Jones]

Ask him why did they give .net and it's license virus qualities infecting
everything written with the library constricted licensing policies.

Is this not just as bad as the virus qualities of GPL.  At least you can
get around the GPL by using dynamic linking of GPL libraries.

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On 15 Apr 2002, 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.  These are issues I want to ask this representative about.  Can
> anyone suggest others.
> 	I don't want to just go in guns ablazing.  There are many students who
> don't know much about Open Source/Linux and I'd like them to understand
> what they're getting into when they sign a contract with MS.  Thanks
>
> Jeff
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