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Microsoft Slaps Its Most Valuable Professional

Posted by kdawson on from the schizophrenic-is-one-word-for-it dept.

Violent Offender writes with a touching story in The Register about Microsoft's awarding of its Most Valuable Professional credential to a British hobbyist, Jamie Cansdale, then turning around and threatening him with a lawsuit for the very software that won him the award. The article links to the amazing correspondence from Microsoft on Cansdale's site.

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  1. Re:Just read up on all of it a few hours ago... by Timesprout · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He assumed that Jamie was hacking the low-end free version of Microsoft's products, when in fact Jamie used APIs published by Microsoft
    He was hacking. He uses the a property of user controls to allow him to inject his code into VS to replace the Addin Manager MS removed.

    Weber was rude
    This has been going on for two years now. He has been asked nicely and has reneged on previous agreements. Now surprise surprise they are pissed with him.

    Weber wouldn't state what part of which license Jamie had violated.
    He has been informed it was the section about complying with the technical limitations of the application, a clause Jamie rather ironically has in his own licence.

    Frankly he deserves what he gets. He ripped off some OS Java test tools and now he's trying to sell it as his own commercial product.
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  2. Re:But Stay Tuned! by Afecks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well since Microsoft wrote the EULA and know why they wrote the EULA and what they wanted it to cover I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

    Maybe Microsoft did intend the EULA to cover this case but failed to spell it out clearly enough. That would mean this guy is getting by on a technicality and I wouldn't expect Microsoft to take that lightly. I can bet in any case Microsoft will spell it out more clearly in their next EULA and I'm sure it will get them off their asses to put in this simple feature that caused all the fuss.

    You can cram almost anything you want into a EULA, I see no reason for them not to put it in there if that's what they intend. It's Microsoft after all, who doesn't expect everything they touch to be bolted to the floor?