Re: [vox] Ms license laugh

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dMAPSirac.org>]

don't laugh so hard.  a bunch of LUGS use frontpage.  notably diablo valley
PC group's linux sig used frontpage for their website.   as rick moen.

and a WHOLE lot of users of vox use windows to read/send email to this list.
one of them even tried sending a 25MB file to the list with an attachment
called "virus.jpg".  it got bounced to me this evening.  good thing majordomo
has size limits...

pete


begin: Sam Peterson <skpeterson@ucdavis.edu> quote
> Heard about this on slashdot.  It's really funny.  Still, what Linux web 
> developer uses Frontpage?!  I can't ever see a reason for this to be 
> enforced.  And honestly could it stand up in court?
> 
> At 11:37 AM 9/20/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >"While we're on the subject of license enforcement, let me throw in a term 
> >one alert reader just spotted in the license for FrontPage 2002. 'You may 
> >not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages 
> >Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ...' the 
> >license reads in part. Good thing InfoWorld doesn't use FrontPage 2002 to 
> >post this column, I guess."
> >
> >--The Gripe Line columnist Ed Foster turns the spotlight on some of 
> >Microsoft's current business practices.
> 
> Sam Peterson
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-- 
"You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages
Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ..."
                    -- Clause from license for FrontPage 2002