Key word "competition". -----Original Message----- From: "Brian Yennie" <[email protected]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: 3/20/2009 5:22 PM Subject: Re: illegal creativity?
Randall, You can't be serious -- go ahead and break the EULA because you might get acquired instead of sued? That seems a bit like saying, go ahead and drive into a tree, your airbag should deploy. Since when are big companies afraid of suing the competition into compliance? > Not exactly true. A large company would never let a case like this > go to court. Bad publicity. Unless the tool you are planning to > release directly competes with or decreases the need for said > product, your tool will only be seen as adding value to the > marketplace. More and more illegal bs is being written into user > licenses as scare tactic deterent. Much more likely is that your > product would be aquiered. Remember who is most likely to sit on a > jury (not board members!). > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Lynn Fredricks" <[email protected]> > To: "'How to use Revolution'" <[email protected]> > Sent: 3/20/2009 4:47 PM > Subject: RE: illegal creativity? > >> What country are you working from? In the usa it is illegal >> to include anything in a contract that is illegal. I am >> pretty sure the restriction of use clause you are describing >> would fall pretty hard in an appeals court. Imagine BMW >> demanding that once a person had driven in or been a >> passenger within one of their cars, that they could not now >> ever do the same in another car not made by BMW. > > I am not a lawyer, but anyone who takes the advice above at face > value will > probably end up needing a good one. > > Best regards, > > Lynn Fredricks > President > Paradigma Software > http://www.paradigmasoft.com > > Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server > > _______________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
