On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 00:15 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:18:36PM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote: > > Indeed, the correct title of the agremeent is: > > > > "Microsoft Work Group Server Protocol Program License Agreement (No > > Patents)" > > > > - http://samba.org/samba/PFIF/PFIF_agreement.pdf > > That's the: "if you don't want to license patents but to develop under > an NDA" agreement.
Which is the agreement they entered into. You claimed that they paid money to Microsoft "for patents". > You get to access, under very controlled conditions, some very hard to > read documentation which you will not be able to talk about with anyone. That's a completely different argument. Whether or not you like the deal is really neither here nor there; the point is, money was not paid to Microsoft in recognition of their patent rights. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
