Microsoft FrontPage License Prohibits Anti-Microsoft Speech

According to this story running at Info World, the license from FrontPage 2002 contains a clause that says 'You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ...' An unfortunate clause that will prevent me from my long term plan of migrating Slashdot to Frontpage (cough). There's lots of other nastiness in this article too. Can anyone find that specific clause? Can anyone find the EULA itself? Update: 09/20 18:10 GMT by T : According to reader bteutsch "FWIW, the clause appears only in the EULA agreement for use of the FrontPage Logo, not with the product or server extensions license."

Comments

This will mean less FrontPage users

[epsalon]

Microsoft is actually contributing to standartization on the net, as less users will use FrontPage. Great!

Slashdot Censors Too

[SIGFPE]

If I say that slashdot is a load of old crap with contributions from a bunch of smelly spotty sex-starved geeks who think something like an operating system can actually be cool I'll get censored into oblivion by offended moderators pretty damn quickly. Here, watch:

<Ducks for cover>
Slashdot is a load of old crap with contributions from a bunch of smelly spotty sex-starved geeks who think something like an operating system can actually be cool
</Ducks for cover>

Re:Smells like Slashdot spirit

[Bazman]

Point 7 --

"7. You may not display the Logo on any site that disparages Microsoft or its products or services"

kinda makes it impossible to comply with point 4 --

"4. The Logo may be displayed only on Web pages that make accurate references to Microsoft."

Oops.