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Clarity (none / 0) (#5)
by EdLeafe on Thu May 01, 2003 at 10:47:18 AM PDT

My problem with all this is that the EULA is legal language, and we are not lawyers. So when a developer was told that he may be in violation of this document, he sent an email asking for clarification on 3 specific points. Instead, the only reply was an even fuzzier "clarification" (see this page for the text), which ended by saying that developers should seek legal counsel to tell them what the EULA means. When you start requiring developers to be lawyers, or to have to hire lawyers to install a product, the problems run a lot deeper than this matter, which really only concerns Visual FoxPro developers and the businesses that run on Visual FoxPro applications. And it is this kind of legalistic posturing that, IMO, will continue to drive more and more business toward Open Source solutions. It may well end up that Microsoft's blundering attempts at squashing Open Source will instead provide the fuel to let it shine brightly.


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