IP: yet more amazing gall

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Lenny Foner <foner () media mit edu>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: yet more amazing gall
> CC: foner () media mit edu
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/1438251&mode=thread
>
> Several readers have told me their EULA for FrontPage 2002 does not
> contain the no-disparaging-MS term, or that the term only applies to
> the FrontPage logo or to the Web components like the MSNBC news
> headline component. Just to be sure, this afternoon I went down to the
> store and bought a copy of FrontPage 2002 myself. In the box was the
> "Microsoft Frontpage 2002" license on a four-page folded sheet, titled
> "End- User License Agreement For Microsoft Software."  Under Section
> #1, Grant of License, the second paragraph headed "Restrictions"
> states in part: "You may not use the Software in connection with any
> site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products
> or services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of
> these parties, violate any state, federal or international law, or
> promote racism, hatred or pornography." (Not only a stunning example
> of legal overreaching, in my opinion, but very poor grammar as well.)
> It appears to me to clearly apply to use of the program as a whole and
> not just the logo or Web components. I suspect that there are
> different versions of the EULA of FrontPage 2002.  Perhaps the license
> was updated for the most recent SKU, or versions obtained through
> different channels don't yet have it.
>
> [If they can't get it passed into interstate commerce law, they'll at
> least try to make sure 95% of the world can't say anything bad about
> them via licensing restrictions.  I can't -wait- for the court case.]



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