On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Malcolm Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any comments on the statements made in this article? A company that tries to get your business through fear rather than offering a superior product is one that I don't want to do business with. Yeah, what everybody else said, with amplification: Please come up with the licenses for every product on your Windows machines, including all of the "I Agree" EULAs you have had to click through for updates, patches and service packs. Print them all out. Read them all and highlight all of the differences and contradictory requirements. I think you will find yourself with far more than 58 variations and with a lot of more legal text that you should be concerned about. I am much more comfortable with the language of the GPL or the MIT or BSD licenses than I am with the VFP9 EULA, for example: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP9EuLA~VFP It all comes down to a choice, and that choice will be different for every business. Features, cost, legal risks all have to be weighed. I've reviewed the experiences I have had with proprietary software over the years, and I generally prefer the Open Source solutions. You need to decide what works for you. It's All About Choice. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
