[OT] MS EULA -- (will ActiveState become outlaws? ;-)

Gerhard Häring gerhard.nospam at bigfoot.de
Thu Jun 21 23:10:52 EDT 2001


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:50:23 -0400 (EDT), Steven D. Majewski wrote:
>
>
>Is this the next stage of Microsoft's war against Open Source ?
>
>Discussion of this on SlashDot :
><http://slashdot.org/articles/01/06/21/1810258.shtml>
>( Right before the article on the Monty Python Action Figures! ) 
>
>If this spreads to all of Microsoft's EULA's, will this make
>ActiveState illegal ?  They don't specifically mention Python's
>license, but they do mention Perl's ( and the "similar to any
>of the following" clause would seem to include Python's. ) 
>
>Does anyone know if this should be taken seriously ? 

Of course not. It was posted on Slashdot.

Gerhard
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