From: Al Billings (memoria@memoria.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 10:04:32 MDT
Cymm wrote:
> PAUL HUGHES SAID: '...-> Already Microsoft has put into some of their
> licensing agreements
> stipulations forbidding any user of their service from disparaging the
> company in any way. In other words, as long as your using a Microsoft
> product (damn, I mean service) you have no freedom of speech, as you
> signed that right away when you signed up for their service. If you
> violate this part of the license they'll yank your privileges. It is my
> understanding that a new feature implemented in Office Suite 2000, has a
>
> mandatory connection to Big Brother (damn, I mean Microsoft). If a
> connection is severed for a certain period of time your license will be
> revoked..."
>
> CYMM SAYS: If MS were a real monopoly; it would be poor marketing. Now, with
> Open Source, this strategy seems to be plain stupid. "Intellectual property"
> as a concept has gone wayyy too far. The pendulum is about to swing the
> other way... it's a built in negative feedback loop.
What Paul says is not true anyway. I challenge him to provide something to
back up either of these.
Since I work at Microsoft, I think I'm in a position to know too.
Al
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"We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal
nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your
own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer."
-- Pico della Mirandola
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