[ale] MS Propaganda representative

[James P. Kinney III]

I thought I saw a very fine print line in the .NET EULA that read
"By becoming aware of the existence of the .NET technology, you, the
potential user who has yet to purchase .NET, accept all terms of this
and any other license from Microsoft in perpetuity and to the exclusion
all that which you hold dear ... all your base are belong to us ...Bill
Rulz ..."

It went on for about another 36,000 words but the font was 0.003 points
tall and I was getting a headache. But I found that by hitting
ctrl-alt-del instead of "I agree that Bill Rulz and I will never again
use OpenSores software" and then entering "I stole windows from apple
and ibm" the box will just lock up and not run with out a reboot.
Strange.

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 21:05, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Krumwiede [mailto:krum at smyrnacable.net]
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 13:58, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > >
> > > But keep in mind that you can't speak in disparaging tones 
> > > about .NET as that would be in violation of the EULA.
> >  
> > Did he ever agree to the EULA?  He said he didn't install the 
> > software.
> >
> 
> Ahhh, see that is one of the wonders of the .NET EULA, you don't 
> have to actually agree to it to accept it.  It is just assumed 
> that you will want to accept it, you do don't you?   ;-)
> 
> 
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