Marco wrote: > > You might want to have the lawyer for the firm read _all_ of the > > licenses and contracts for software and hardware, to determine > > whether or not there are any clauses that prohibit the firm from > > using other software, or otherwise conflict with each other. > > ??? Sorry, what do you mean?
> Software licenses (at least the enforceable, real ones, not the "you Note: I wrote "licenses and contracts". Whilst licenses don't, as a general rule, prohibit co-existence of other software, contracts related to the purchase and support of hardware frequently do limit the co-existence of other software. > limit how you can modify, mix and redistribute the _source_ code > of the respective programs or how many copies you can install and for The license for at least one program from Microsoft prohibits the installation and use of the specific product on any operating system other than Windows X or Windows 200 > could you quote specific cases of licenses that attempt to limit what you do > _with_ the executable software as a user, I'll just point out that one of the requirements for a program to be free for Debian Legal, is: "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavour;" I've forgotten the program which generated that clause, but part of its license prohibited the use of it by the military, or for a military purpose. _The Watch Tower Library_ license has a clause that prohibits it from being used for research purposes by those who are not members in good standing in their local Kingdom Hall. Back around June 2007, Microsoft came up with a license that, on its face, prohibits the installation of any software that is not developed by Microsoft. Whilst that particular clause is overly broad, and probably will be knocked out in a court, the cost of defending such a lawsuit mitigates against defending a lawsuit with an abusive clause written by a company whose business practices are abusive, and harmful to everybody, when they are being benign. xan jonathon -- OOo can not correct for incompetence in creating documents from MSO. Furthermore,OOo can not compensate for the defective and flawed security measures used by Microsoft. As such, before using this product for exams that require faulty and defective software, ensure that you will not be unjustly penalized for the incompetence of the organization that requires the use of software that is known to be flawed, defective, bug-ridden, and fails to meet ISO file format standards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
