[ale] MS Propaganda representative

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Matthew Brown writes:
 > Or just keep bringing up one terrific idea after another that all fail
 > to comply with the EULA.  Sorry don't have any great examples...

How about writing .Net stuff to interface with MySQL.  According to
the MySQL interpretation of the GPL, that is "linking" and the
application must be GPLed!  Of course, most people disagree, but will
the MS apologist know that?

--Michael

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 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Jeff Rose [mailto:jojerose at mindspring.com] 
 > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 5:17 PM
 > To: ale at ale.org
 > Subject: Re: [ale] MS Propaganda representative
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 > 
 > That's not a bad idea.  I thought about passing out copies of a Linux
 > distro but I'd be up all night burning.
 > 
 > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 13:51, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
 > > Jeff, I think one of the most uprightly subversive things you could do
 > > would be to make copies of the .NET EULA and pass them out before the 
 > > talk begins...
 > > 
 > > 
 > > - Jeff
 > > 
 > > Jeff Rose wrote:
 > > 
 > > > My professor says it's ok if my friends sit in on this thing so 
 > > > friends... anyone wishing to witness this, bring your wooden stakes 
 > > > and garlic.  I'll be the guy in the Linux t-shirt.
 > > > 
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