Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-07-01 Thread Miles Teg
> I disagree, MS coding for *nix? All the time I am hearing from them that > open-source should be illegal!!! and now contrivuting to unix by making a > really good browser? They made a bad one so that you will be forced to move Wake up. Microsoft is shifting focus to providing services. They re

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-30 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MT>> the Windows MSIE used to suck bigtime as well. theyv'e got the corporate MT>> funding and manpower to improve it. and they will. I do not believe that. Solaris MSIE was "proof of concept" product. It had played it's purpose, there's no slightest reason to spend on it any more - it will never

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-30 Thread dgi_il
> On Friday 29 June 2001 00:40, you wrote: > > >> I remember I saw it one, somehere... it's not a linux specific but > > > > There's a version of MSIE for Solaris - that's what they call "MSIE for > > UNIX". I have yet to see one person that saw it (MSIE for Solaris) and > > doesn't think it sucks

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-30 Thread Miles Teg
On Friday 29 June 2001 00:40, you wrote: > >> I remember I saw it one, somehere... it's not a linux specific but > > There's a version of MSIE for Solaris - that's what they call "MSIE for > UNIX". I have yet to see one person that saw it (MSIE for Solaris) and > doesn't think it sucks big time

Re: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-29 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:20:39AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I remember I saw it one, somehere... it's not a linux specific but linux can > abiuosly use it. I saw IE for mac also. Will all those versions include > bidi? IE for MacOS has nothing to do with the Unix port, and seems to be a

Re: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Miles Teg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:05 PM > Subject: Fwd: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development > t

Re: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-28 Thread dgi_il
OTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:05 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools? > > Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. > > Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Mainsoft &

Re: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-28 Thread dgi_il
5 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools? > > Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. > > Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Mainsoft > > is a trademark of Mainsoft C

Fwd: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-28 Thread Miles Teg
> Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. > Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Mainsoft > is a trademark of Mainsoft Corporation. UNIX VERSION? where? = To unsubscribe, send

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-28 Thread dgi_il
MS area bunch of hiprocats (tzbuhim). Here is the part of the about in IE5 which nobody reads, look at the part which is marked (by me), I am ignoring the first line for now... They do use open source code: Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomp

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-28 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:26:42AM -0700, Efraim Yawitz wrote: > > > On 27 Jun 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Do we care about this? > > > > Yes, if you work in a mixed Open Source / Microsoft environment. > > > > > Does this have anyth

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Efraim Yawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can anyone not care about this? What is to prevent M$ from > selling ('licensing') software with a condition that requires you to > buy a certain brand of car, read a certain newspaper, or vote for a > certain political party? Does this kind of s

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Efraim Yawitz
On 27 Jun 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do we care about this? > > Yes, if you work in a mixed Open Source / Microsoft environment. > > > Does this have anything to do with linux? > > Yes. From now on you will have to read M$ and other licens

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Ely Levy
I wonder though is this licence only for this specific beta product or are there other products which is released under this licence? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > how would it be thier right to do it? > it's like they would s

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Ely Levy
how would it be thier right to do it? it's like they would say we don't allow you to write programs which use oracle tools after Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On 27 Jun 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do we care about

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 27 Jun 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wonder if someone will have the balls to call their bluff and sue > > them for not realeasing the source code for Windows, IE, etc.. I'm > > pretty sure there's a line of Perl *somewhere* in their bu

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Adi Stav
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:56:36PM +0300, guy keren wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Omer Zak wrote: > > > The situation was blown up, due to Microsoft's own FUD tactics.They > > claim that GPL is more "infectious" than it really is.They claim that if > > you edit and compile code using GPLed too

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if someone will have the balls to call their bluff and sue > them for not realeasing the source code for Windows, IE, etc.. I'm > pretty sure there's a line of Perl *somewhere* in their build > system... ;-) You might be interested in read

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I do agree with Omer's conjecture that it is plausible that the > license was simply screwed up by an unprofessional lawyer and a very > pointy-haired executive. On the other hand, the license remains quite > valid as it is, and M$ are in their right to enforce it. I

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Omer Zak wrote: > The situation was blown up, due to Microsoft's own FUD tactics.They > claim that GPL is more "infectious" than it really is.They claim that if > you edit and compile code using GPLed tools, your code must, too, be > GPLed.This is untrue. more then this - t

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we care about this? Yes, if you work in a mixed Open Source / Microsoft environment. > Does this have anything to do with linux? Yes. From now on you will have to read M$ and other licenses with extra care to figure out whether or not you can use

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-26 Thread Omer Zak
I have read the EULA in question. The situation was blown up, due to Microsoft's own FUD tactics. They claim that GPL is more "infectious" than it really is. They claim that if you edit and compile code using GPLed tools, your code must, too, be GPLed. This is untrue. According to what I unde

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-26 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On 26 Jun 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > At the risk to be close to off-topic, here's a tidbit: > > In the SV.com's roundtable (check /.) Bruce Perens asks > about the newest MS EULA, > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/eula_mit.htm > > (Linux is specifically mentioned there, so I *am*

MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
At the risk to be close to off-topic, here's a tidbit: In the SV.com's roundtable (check /.) Bruce Perens asks about the newest MS EULA, http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/eula_mit.htm (Linux is specifically mentioned there, so I *am* on topic :) While I can see that M$ can be worried about