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Microsoft Slaps Its Most Valuable Professional
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.
Now that lawyers are involved, it's pretty clear how Jamie violated their terms.
Here's the term he violated:
"You may not work around any technical limitations in the software"
Clearly, by using Microsoft's OWN APIs and their OWN calls, he's working around technical limitations in THEIR OWN software. The obvious way Microsoft should have handled this is to have the Express software ignore the calls in question, or build the software so it expressly forbids addons.
Instead, they were hoping people would follow the spirit of the feature sheet that says "Express does not support addons" and not realize they were just lazy all around and failed both in creating the software and the EULA.
If you actually bothered to read the correspondence like you claimed, you'd realize just how absurd this is, and that goes to the people that modded you informative as well...
Take the karma...why have it if I can't burn it now and again?...