Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!ishmael!inmet!justin
From: justin@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MSC 5.0 License Agreement
Message-ID: <124200001@inmet>
Date: 7 Dec 87 16:25:00 GMT
References: <2412@mibte.UUCP>
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Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!justin    Dec  7 11:25:00 1987


/* Written 12:10 pm  Dec  3, 1987 by richw@rosevax.UUCP in inmet:comp.lang.c */
In article <803@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> 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 really believe all of this is much ado about nothing.
...
> --Bill

Rich W.
/* End of text from inmet:comp.lang.c */

I agree. Chill out, guys! When I first started using Microsoft COBOL (God
help me) some seven years ago, we were OVERJOYED to see this notice.
All the other decent compilers that used runtime modules required 
*royalties* (remember these, boys and girls?). Microsoft is allowing
you to distribute their object code, free of change, for just a credit.
This seems like a pretty good deal to me.

(Disclaimer: I have no relationship to Microsoft, other than having,
I think, been used as an inadvertant beta site for their COBOL).

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