[geeks] GAH! City of Austin Vs. Microsoft

Gary Nichols gary at linuxforce.org
Fri Apr 19 10:09:55 CDT 2002


Nah, you just sign away your life, liberty and freedom by USING a MS 
product.  Oh man... I feel a Dennis Miller-ish rant coming on...

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:07:44AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Gary Nichols wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think their compliance with Micro$hit's demand was "Pay us $X and use no
> > > other OS, or pay us $X^2".
> > 
> > My response would be "prove we stole it".  Whatever happened to
> > presumption of innocence?  Though I suppose a court battle would be more
> > expensive, even in th eshort term...
> 
> Don't you sign away that right by agreeing to the license agreement?
> 
> 

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