At 13:47 2009-10-06, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> > Simple. The EULA sets the terms. Ending support would not
> > change those terms.
>
>Correct. Could be that the EULA wouldn't stand up to a court challenge,
>but is your client prepared to be the test case?
Probably not, and that has to do with their possibly different
evaluation of the risk.
>I got tired of swimming in the murky waters of Microsoft licensing, and
>I got tired of knowingly developing applications that wouldn't work on
>other platforms in the future. So I decided to move away from
>proprietary software, whenever possible.
I do not mind proprietary software, but I very much dislike lock-in.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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