[ale] MS Propaganda representative

[Cade Thacker]

Jump up on the table, calling him the spawn of Satan, then run around the
room babeling incoherently, then collapse on the floor and start foaming
at the mouth. See if that helps. ;)


--cade

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Jim Philips wrote:

> On Monday 15 April 2002 10:20 am, Jeff Rose wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 	Tomorrow a MS representative is scheduled to be a guest speaker in my
> > software engineering class at GSU.  He will be explaining the wonder
> > that will be .Net.  I have obtained a copy of .Net (has and will not be
> > installed).  Reading the EULA is quite scary and makes me more than a
> > little angry.  It basically says any code written with it may not be
> > freely redistributed and must be copyrighted with as much protection as
> > Visual Studio .Net.  Kind of the antithesis of GPL. It also prohibits
> > the programmer from developing software that directly competes with MS
> > Access.
>
> Suppose a .Net service uses Access as a client for a MySQL database using
> ODBC. Does that bother them? Who determines what "directly competes" with MS
> Access? And just for jollies, ask him about the "Hailstorm" initiative that
> MS just killed due to lack of interest. Pretend you didn't know it was
> already dead.
>
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