Thomas Charron wrote:
> Someone else please read this licence
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/eula_mit.htm
>
> This is the usage agreement for the newest Beta of the Mobile internet
> toolkit. Specifically, look at section 1c.
>
I looked at it, read it several times. Now that my eyes are uncrossed I still
can't
parse it let alone tell you what it means. I think it means they want to own your
soul. But I'm not sure. :-)
Seriously, after wading through the legalese I think they probably couldn't
tell you what it means, other than that Ballmer was correct. I think it's another
FUD vector ("potentially viral software"? shouldn't that be "excessively virile
software"? :-) trying to scare the masses with inpenetrable legal jargon that
looks threatening if you dare risk mixing their bits with any that might have
been contaminated by dat boogieman Linus, er, Linux. Anywhere on your
network too, unless you read carefully about the specific prohibitions.
Reading those prohibitions carefully, what they're really trying to say seems
to be that you can't redistribute their bits in conjunction with open sourced
bits (hmm, makes sense that they want to protect themselves against claims
that they just became open-sourced - so they can concoct a credible argument
that this is reasonable) and that you can't use open-sourced tools to mung on
their product or derivitive works (same argument would apply, but really
what they're trying to forestall here seems to be reverse engineering and/or
interoperability, IMHO).
Cute. Bogus, but cute.
--Brucem
>
> Want even better, check out the rest, section 7 is called VII: RELINQUISHING
> OF IMMORTAL SOUL.
>
> MadDog, you still out there? What do YOU think of this? I mean, I suppose
> it's great that Microsoft is actually using the term Linux IN their EULA, but
> for CRYING out loud..
>
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> Thomas Charron
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