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Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
Talkback The article is too cynical for me to understand it as a non-native english speaker.
[March 20, 2005, 0:25]
Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
Talkback So much for objectivity in reporting. WTF? Microsoft is required to LICENSE their protocols, not provide charity. Open source makes MS's protocol visible to non-licensees, which certainly wasn't intended in the original ruling.
[March 21, 2005, 17:27]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
Talkback Great business sense, threatening that the price *may* go up so buy your licenses while they are cheap. No one is interested in SCOSource regardless of how many press releases SCO issue saying otherwise.
[August 10, 2004, 12:38]
Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
Talkback So in summary, Adam S, you believe that no-one should be allowed to program on a Microsoft platform without Microsoft's explicitly licensed and fully paid-through-the-nose permission. Hence all Windows applications must exist at Microsoft's...
[March 21, 2005, 21:46]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
Talkback Hello, I am Unix, and It is all mine, including any derivative work.never mind the truth) Nice, very very nice, all I need is a judge. So where do I find a judge, in Nigeria, in Sudan, in Afganistan. NO, no, - do not be ridiculous- , search the US.
[August 10, 2004, 17:31]
Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
Talkback Adam S, despite what you may think, a protocol is not the source code of an application. It is a set of specifications which other developers can use to write software that interoperates with the implementing software.
[March 22, 2005, 8:47]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
Talkback It sounds like the script from a gangster movie: SCO: Better pay up now for protection, or you never know what will happen to you. Wouldn't want to be sued now would you. Better pay now, or the fees will double later.
[August 10, 2004, 17:40]
Microsoft has no licence for bad behaviour
Talkback I just don't understand why the industry has left it to MS to patent the basic anti-spam concepts. Lets hope someone comes up with a better idea and makes that available for the benefit of all - before monopolistic commercial tendencies nail it in...
[September 7, 2004, 22:36]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
Talkback I'm surprised to hear the word "future" from SCO.
[August 10, 2004, 18:27]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
Talkback This is the same crap they said when they announced the licensing program.so nothing new hear move a long ;)
[August 10, 2004, 22:20]
Microsoft trials licence-checking programme
Talkback If you have nothing to fear then if you want this software GO FO IT Where in the article is there a box so that you can "go for it" ? I f you recomend a friend they will no doubt come back to you and ask this very question /
[November 1, 2004, 15:42]
Microsoft offers free software as licence-check reward
Talkback If Microsoft didn't charge so much for their OS, piracy wouldn't be a problem. Even the OEM version for XP is $90, for the crappiest OS I have ever used. When I was building my machine I initially didn't have enough money for WIndows, and had to...
[November 1, 2004, 20:05]
Antivirus vendors crack down on eBay licence cheats
Talkback Trabant probably more apt
[May 18, 2006, 13:54]
Government moves goalposts in broadband licence debacle
News In the fourth licence area, Your Communications has also almost reached the target, according to the Radiocommunications Agency. The other five companies have all failed to hit the 10 percent rollout target, which the government specifically...
[September 4, 2002, 14:08]
SCO cancels Sequent's Unix licence
News Based on the move, SCO claims that IBM no longer has the right to use or license Dynix/ptx, and said that customers should not be able to acquire a licence for the software. The SCO Group on Wednesday terminated its Unix System V software contract...
[August 13, 2003, 16:25]
Microsoft trials licence-checking programme
News Microsoft has launched a pilot programme in which some visitors to the main Windows download page are being asked to let the software maker check to see whether their copy of the operating system is licensed.
[September 20, 2004, 11:00]
Apple cuts Mac OS X Server licence fees
News A 10-user licence of Windows 2000 Server costs $1,199, and to get an upgrade, customers have to enter into a licence arrangement. Under many of these agreements, the cost of upgrades after three years comes to around the same as the price of the...
[October 14, 2002, 14:18]
SCO cancels Sequent's Unix licence
Talkback Microsoft is feeling the preasure of Linux and sits behind this, SCO suddenly has got a big buddy, and M$ is winning all the way, not just putting presure on Linux but Unix too.
[August 13, 2003, 18:16]
SCO cancels Sequent's Unix licence
Talkback There isn't any "IBM subsidiary Sequent". IBM bought them and they're integrated into the company. The web site www.sequent.com redirects to www.ibm.com. This would explain why you weren't able to contact Sequent representatives for comment.
[August 13, 2003, 23:19]
Microsoft's draft licence, step by step
Talkback Looks like Bill Gates is still treating the rest of the world like idiots. Unfortunately, there are too many people willing to let him, like anonymous and others above. Talk about anticompetitive behaviour!
[April 3, 2005, 6:42]
