Re: [newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 04 May 2002 09:31 am, you wrote: > On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 00:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Carroll, > > Check out the following URL, if the excerpt is interesting to you -- > > http://www.mlug.ca/paul/stories/column26_html > > Excerpt from that article -- >

Re: [newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 00:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Carroll, Check out the following URL, if the excerpt is interesting to you -- http://www.mlug.ca/paul/stories/column26_html Excerpt from that article -- MS Insurance - or E

Re: [newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 00:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > The Register published an update to their earlier article. Read it at: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25152.html > MS has backed down somewhat from their earlier position that the software and > the hardware are absolutely inseparabl

Re: [newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-03 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 4 May 2002 00:42:21 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My 2 cents on this whole deal: Just because it says something in the EULA > doesn't mean it's legal. The problem is that MS has a lot of highly paid > lawyers who get their marching orders from Uncle Bill. His agenda

[newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-03 Thread Carroll Grigsby
The Register published an update to their earlier article. Read it at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25152.html MS has backed down somewhat from their earlier position that the software and the hardware are absolutely inseparable. Now it's not a legal requirement, just beneficial. Incl