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Mike the newbie
09-21-2001, 08:58 AM
Now they are censoring what can be written on web sites:

...Possibly. I've long believed that one of the main motivations behind Microsoft's enthusiastic support for UCITA has been the legal cover that law provides for the remote and/or automatic disabling of customers' software. While we're on the subject of license enforcement, let me throw in a term one alert reader just spotted in the license for FrontPage 2002. "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ... " the license reads in part. Good thing InfoWorld doesn't use FrontPage 2002 to post this column, I guess....
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/09/17/010917opfoster.xml


(UCITA info: http://www.cpsr.org/program/UCITA/ucita-fact.html)



I, for one, am certainly happy that I am moving away from using Microsoft software. pretty soon Bill Gates will be telling me what I can think.