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Microsoft Improves Its Licensing Terms
prostoalex writes "Microsoft offers to pick up the legal tab, in case anyone gets pulled to court for using its products. News dot com dot com has a rather informative outline of new policies: Microsoft will cover unlimited expenses on injury and infringement claims, the company quadrupled the warranty on its products to a 12-month length, and the companies audited for licensing compliance will now get a 30-day warning instead of 15-day one."
Interesting that they waited until after the days of Windows 9x to do this. ;)
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In addition, they'll now only use 10,000V tasers while questioning the CTO about discrepancies, instead of the 50,000V ones
For as many of us as there are here, though, the effective throughput sucks...my throughput is limited to just slightly faster than a 28.8 modem.
I was going to say how do we know that the advanced SMP code from Linux didn't slip into *BSD and result in you guys being next in the lawsuit. Then I realized SMP support for *BSD is either horrible or non-existent so you must not have borrowed anything from Linux.
It's not "Microsoft Improves Its Licensing Terms"...it's "Microsoft Licenses Its Improvement Terms". Unless Slashdot purchased a license from Microsoft to report on this story, Slashdot has violated Microsoft's licensing agreement.
I have to say everytime I hear this argument I find myself just utterly dumbfounded by the stupidity of such thoughts. Whether you hate Microsoft or love one thing that Microsoft knows is teh Cost of Legal Expenses. Now lets say SCO takes Microsoft to court I can gaurentee you win or lose Microsoft would end up paying more then Buying a liscence. What SCO is doing is called Extortion. Plain and simple. Microsoft knows when its better to fight then not fight. Why would Microsoft fight this battle what would be their gain to this.
Nothing They would save a few dollars and possibly cost themselves Billions. Think about it Lets say SCO is right abotu their claims think they will win vs IBM I don't. The only reason IBM is fighing this is because they know their services (largest part of the company) is in Serious trouble if SCO wins this and they can be extorted for years to come from SCO and SCO has to do nothing to make that money off of IBM. Would you fight if your lively hood was at stake? I sure as hell would. However if I had some bum hanging around my house trying to scare off my friends and he makes a deal saying he will leave you alone if you give him $5 well screw it I would pay up. Now the funny thing I find about the Linuk community is how much you support IBM and hate MS. I never heard about MS developing a tracking system to track and slaughter a race of people. But damn sure I have heard of IBM doing it.
Microsoft will cover unlimited expenses on injury and infringement claims,...
Does that inclde cervical spine injuries secondary to high velocity cranial impacts against an infamous blue screen??
That Bill Gates really is Santa Claus. At what point will their incredible generosity meet its limit?
Do you have ESP?
If I get hauled into court for unauthorized copying of MS software, they will pay my legal bills? "Right hand, this is Left hand, hello? HELLO???"
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Oh? And how much did you pay for your .NET extentions? (I did mention which EULA for a reason.) They could trash my machine and have sex with my cat, but the most I could collect would be $5. (Which is greater than the $0 that I paid.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.