On 4/3/07, MB Software Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Crozier wrote: > > You may not:... work around technical limitations in the software
> But would it be enforceable in a court of law? MB: beating a dead horse. http://www.tedroche.com/blog/?p=1369 Posted January 29th, 2005 (Additional links in the original) "VFP 9 EULA posted to FoxForum Wiki By Ted Roche "Andrew MacNeill points out that the VFP 9 EULA is posted in its entirety to the FoxForum Wiki at http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP9EuLA~VFP."; "It's great to see the brain-dead requirement of having to uninstall previous versions has been removed. However, there are some really bizarre new phrases added. Rush Strong points out the weirdest: "You may not.. work around technical limitations in the software," Excuse me? That's how I have made my living for the past fifteen years. VFP doesn't include your inventory system, but that's a technical limitation I can help you work around. Yes, it's true that DROP TAG ALL will remove all relations, but I know of a product that works around that technical limitation… VFP crashes when used with some HP drivers, but there's a technical work-around on the Microsoft KnowledgeBase that lets me work around this technical limitation." "I find it hard to believe that such a silly requirement could be enforced in court. On the one hand, OJ was found innocent and Sacco and Vanzetti executed. On the other, Microsoft was found guilty, guilty, guilty. I have neither the money nor the interest in finding out what is and isn't enforceable in the EULA! But I think a lawyer at Microsoft needs to be flogged for writing such nonsense." - End of old post. New rant begins here - Once MS started putting silly, meaningless phrases in their license, it was obvious they were not interested in doing business with people who wanted to use their product. Imagine your corporate attorney asking you "Did you work around any technical limitations in the software in the course of developing this application?" How could you answer? Did you make a cursor Read/Write? Did you hack an FRX to do things the Report Writer doesn't let you do? Did you create a view that can't be loaded in the View Designer? It's a proposterous standard to be held to, and it makes it clear that MS thinks they can control the minutia of how their software is used. I cannot risk spending my time and money in court debating what the EULA means in a court of law. If Microsoft cannot write a license I can clearly understand and agree to, I cannot in good conscience use their product. Time to move on. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
