Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbosgd!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal Subject: Re: MSC 5.0 License Agreement Message-ID: <803@neoucom.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 15:54:56 EST Article-I.D.: neoucom.803 Posted: Wed Dec 2 15:54:56 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 07:31:21 EST References: <2412@mibte.UUCP> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 21 Summary: Stupid shrink-wrap leagalese lingo, etc Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:5697 comp.sys.ibm.pc:10742 misc.legal:4174 I saw the software licensing on a friend's copy of MSC 4.0. I'm surprised that it has persisted through to 5.0 since Borland in partiular has a very liberal policy with their product. They also have an agreenment that can be read by a human without 6 years of law school. I was hoping that Borland's agreement would cause Microsoft to update theirs to something more reasonable. If I ever do market the software I am working on, I will not use MSC. I have no intention of giving a free plug to Microsoft via my software. I consider Mircsoft's stance akin to having Sears insist on having "This house was nailed together with a Sears hammer" stenciled on my front door. I would be willing, however, to give the Microsoft compiler credit in an appendix in the user's manual. As a user of programs myself I know that it is interesting to know from whence their code arose. (Of course, if I really care, I can alway peek with debug looking for the runtime library notice embedded in the code.) --Bill