IP: MS Front Page 2002 Licence Agreement: [risks] Risks Digest 21.68

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:58:22 +0100
> From: Alistair McDonald <alistair () bacchusconsultancy com>
> Subject: MS Front Page 2002 Licence Agreement
>
> Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/1443226 reports that
> the latest MS Front Page licence agreement prevents you from any
> anti-microsoft Web content with it:
>
>   "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages
>   Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ..."
>
> I always click through licences these days, so I wouldn't have read it (not
> that I'd install Front Page anyway), but what is the world coming to! Is
> this legal in _your_ country?
>
> Alistair McDonald       Bacchus Consultancy     www.bacchusconsultancy.com
>
>   [UCITA (RISKS-21.27,45,41) seems to make this legal in those states in
>   which UCITA has passed (at least Virginia and Maryland).  Incidentally,
>   The Risks Forum tries to be an equal-disparager forum, but it is worth
>   noting for the record that each issue is prepared using Gnu-emacs on
>   Linux.  PGN]



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