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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: MSC 5.0 License Agreement
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Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 15:54:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  2 15:54:56 1987
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Summary: Stupid shrink-wrap leagalese lingo, etc
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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