OK, Tim, let's play by your rules for a minute.
I develop on Windows. I have compared your jCVS 4.7 and wincvs.org's WinCVS
1.0.6 and found jCVS to be vastly inferior, and I'm cross-posting to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and comp.software.config-mgmt. I'm recommending WinCVS to
everyone. I don't have a legal or ethical problem because both jCVS and
WinCVS are distributed under the GNU Public License ("activities other than
copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they
are outside its scope").
Regards,
Randy Stafford
PS. I see at http://www.trustice.com/java/index.shtml that you have
experience in "SmallTalk" - FYI, it's spelled Smalltalk.
PPS. Your domain name implies that you want people to trust you, and yet
you're openly announcing that you'll litigate the validity of software
licenses?
> -----Original Message-----
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> > Tim Endres wrote:
> > >
> > > I would ignore their license and force them to sue me.
> > >
> >
> > This has been said more than once, and strikes me
> > as absolutely wrong.
> >
> > It's perfectly okay for vendors to restrict the testing
> > of their product. Rather idiotic, imho, because it then
> > leads to the sort of unprovable back-room whispers that
> > only benefit the least-honest vendor.
>
> And the argument that this is only to protect the vendor
> doesn't cut it. If they wish to protect their product,
> they can publish their own "tweaked" results, with the
> appropriate disclaimer. Or they can join forces to fund
> an objective third party to compare all products on an
> equal playing field, as one poster already suggested.
>
> > But, nonetheless, a particular vendor may see things
> > differently and is perfectly within their rights to do
> > so.
> >
> > And, if you sign a license that promises not to do
> > something, well, you ought not to do it.
> >
> > That's pretty straightforward, isn't it ? Entering an
> > agreement knowing that you intend to violate it is
> > not entirely ethical behavior.
>
> Depends on whether I believe that the license is legally
> founded and will hold up in court. Such a license as was
> intimated in this case would not hold up. No more than a
> license that said I couldn't post to the Internet giving
> my opinion of the product!
>
> tim.
> Tim Endres [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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