"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > While doing research for my site on the Microsoft > antitrust trial ( http://www.kegel.com/remedy/ ), I > came across a nasty little EULA for a product called > MSNBC News Alert. The EULA is at > http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newsalert/naeula.asp > and says > > > MSNBC Interactive grants you the right to install and use > > copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly > > licensed copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE > > PRODUCT was designed
So who specifies for what operating systems the software was designed? > > [e.g., Microsoft Windows(r) 95; Microsoft > > Windows NT(r), Microsoft Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.]. > > It'd be nice to know how close Wine is to being able to > (a) install and (b) run this on a fake windows installation, > as this may have some bearing on whether Microsoft is > damaging anybody with this exclusionary EULA. > (Besides, how could I resist? That EULA practically begs to be disobeyed!) It seems to me that one cannot even tell whether one is or is not disobeying it. Bill
