[CoLoCo] Live by the EULA Die by the EULA

Neal McBurnett neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Sat Apr 5 02:13:13 BST 2008


On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:59:37PM -0600, ....
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Repeat ad nauseum.

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Balmer to lieutenant:
>> We must crush the linux dogs with patents

lieutenant:

> Nah - its so expensive to actually create patentable stuff.  It is
> much easier to play games with our EULA wording.  Change it every so
> often, mumble about the DMCA.  Then rather than even trying to
> reverse engineering our stuff, they'll spend all day long making up
> their own FUD and legalese in their Ubuntu mailing lists, drowning
> out all productive packaging, software development and documentation
> work and prompting the smart ones to take up legal careers.  Then we
> win by default.

:-(

Neal



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