Il giorno lun, 02/07/2007 alle 20.38 -0700, member greenarrow1 ha scritto: > It seems people are afraid to speak out, even the security companies. > The other area is to find this information one must violate Microsoft > EULA's, licenses so this places the finder in a precarious position of > being sued or taken to court by Microsoft and its mass of lawyers and > money. One has to thread lightly in this area as even the DOJ only > rendered a slap on the wrist to MS for anti-trust compared to the > European Union. One does not know who MS has in their pockets in the > US and even with proof it could pose a considerable threat upon the > one who goes after Microsoft. I was advised to go the individual > state route and not federal just because of what I just wrote.
In Italy we are trying (and I fear it will take eons to really do..) to organize free legal support for people who don't agree with EULA. The EULA breaks some Italian laws too, but on very corner cases it seems so it is never clear how to move. Another thing we are trying to do is to go in mega stores and talk about Linux. We want to get signed authorization to move on behalf of the users to get the license cost back if one switches. Sometimes, I feel like a lost battle, but in these years lots is going better and better, and I interpret these last actions against the FLOSS community (i.e. the patent deals) like the last strike of a dying enemy. Mario -- Lima Software - http://www.limasoftware.net/ GNU Classpath Developer - http://www.classpath.org/ Fedora Ambassador - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MarioTorre Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF Please, support open standards: http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/
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