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Microsoft Improves Its Licensing Terms

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the linux-competition-has-salutary-effect dept.

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."

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  1. Hilarious by slashuzer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now will M$, of all companies, pick up the tab if some one's caught "pirating" content via p2p on its platform?

  2. ooooooooohhhhhh by panda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Doesn't that just give the warm fuzzies all over!

    For the sarcasm impaired, I'm being facetious.

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  3. This over password cracking? by truthsearch · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In the article, MS says it hardly matters to them financially. We all know it's just playing further on customer fears (maybe). But I can't believe /. won't post the much more significant news story on CNet: Cracking Windows passwords in seconds. The weakness published in a research paper proving cracking Windows is far far easier than Unix, Linux, or Mac OS X is far more interesting to /. readers than this legal stuff.

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  4. Whats that smell? by icemax · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is that the smell of my Karma burning? Possibly because I'm about to say that this is great news from Redmond? Any movement in the right direction should be rewarded folks :)

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  5. Re:Good for them... by Gingko · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They do. CLR runtime and compilers are available free for download. Visual Studio and .NET enabled business servers remain pay to play.

    Try here for example.

    Seriously, I know that a lot of it is Microsoft's fault because of their whack-on-an-acronym marketing dept, but is it really so hard to figure out what .NET is about?

    Henry

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