[CoLoCo] Live by the EULA Die by the EULA

[David Overcash]

Oh believe me I am on your side Andrew.  I think it's a violation of
consumer's rights...  but I was just explaining WHY they do it.  : )

Nothing Microsoft does makes sense to me for my own rights, but it
definitely does for THEIRs.  : )

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:59:37PM -0600, ....
> >>> ...
> >> ...
> >>>> ...
> >>> ...
> >> ...
> > ...
> Repeat ad nauseum.
>
> ----
>
> Balmer to lieutenant:
> >> We must crush the linux dogs with patents
>
> lieutenant:
>
> > Nah - its so expensive to actually create patentable stuff.  It is
> > much easier to play games with our EULA wording.  Change it every so
> > often, mumble about the DMCA.  Then rather than even trying to
> > reverse engineering our stuff, they'll spend all day long making up
> > their own FUD and legalese in their Ubuntu mailing lists, drowning
> > out all productive packaging, software development and documentation
> > work and prompting the smart ones to take up legal careers.  Then we
> > win by default.
>
> :-(
>
> Neal
>
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