Microsoft FrontPage License Prohibits Anti-Microsoft Speech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 20, 2001 @04:43AM from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.

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."

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Ha! by Pig+Hogger · 2001-09-20 04:45 · Score: 1, Troll

Why does big corporations always want to curtail liberty? (1st pst?)
Hmmm..... by soulsteal · 2001-09-20 04:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Must be based on Slashdot's user agreement clause of promising to never read the articles.