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Topic: MicroSoft Attempts to Limit Free Speech?
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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today
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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99
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posted 09-26-2001 02:34 AM
According to Slashdot, the end user license agreement that comes with at least some copies of Frontpage 2002 contains this restriction: "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state, federal or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography." Slashdot has more.Don't talk bad about MicroSoft. If you do and you use their crappy Frontpage software, they will get you. Say only good things about MicroSoft.
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 09-26-2001 06:31 PM
Where will Microsoft go next with this? Will they say that you cannot use a machine running any version of Microsoft Windows to create any type of electronic content in the categories they had listed in the Frontpage license agreement, and include such a clause in the license agreement of every Microsoft operating system and software package? It would be tough to enforce, but once they get their foot in the door, .......Brad, "vi" is tough to learn and use if you're not already used to it. I hated it from 1986 until 1991. I got good enough with it in 1992 to use it well. This does not mean it took me 6 years to learn it. I used it one semester in 1986 and used it for the next time in 1991, then began having to use it for C programming under UNIX. Remember, UNIX is user-friendly. It's just picky about its friends.  ------------------
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
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posted 09-27-2001 10:45 AM
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Ummmm.... How can you already be used to it if you're trying to learn it?
It's just one of those things that UNIX people understand. If you're not one of us, you just won't get it.  When you want to do something and you think about it is by putting together a bunch of UNIX commands in a nice creative command, like cat `find . -name "010927-1.txt" -print | grep -i redifer"` | Mail -s "Hey Joe" `cat ~/global/email/joe_redifer/email` then you're in. If you think, "I'll try to find that message that someone sent me earlier today in Outlook that I want to send to Joe and I'll just click "Forward" and send it to him", then you're not. The above example is a bit more extreme than I'd actually use except in strange circumstances.
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Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site
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