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Story: Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story

Posted by: Arthur B. (Friday 5 November 2004, 10:36 PM)

$5 is the maximum amount Microsoft specifies in its EULA's when it comes down to composating for the problems it causes.

Microsoft is just making wild claims as they go along while milking this new PR item of theirs. Totally ignoring our greatest hurts (security, value for money, avoiding lock-in, working well with others including older and newer versions of Microsoft's own products) in the mean time.

Interesting to note that Microsoft hasn't made public the 'fine print' details of this newest vaporware product of theirs: 'indemnification'.

A lot of questions are still unanswered. Will this Microsoft 'indemnification' be fully available to all, existing, customers or just new ones that purchase the full package? What are the exact requirements? Might Microsoft offer 'alternative' solutions (as they see fit) rather then fighting in court till the very end? Etc, etc.

Leave it to Microsoft to announce the upcoming existance of the fullfilling of our wildest dreams to then, overdue, deliver some half baked product that still needs patching yet requires major overhauls to get it installed to somewhat full functionality. No wonder companies with their own commercial agenda love it so much. There's no end to it.

Microsoft's 'indemnification' will turn out to be, once closely examined and put to the test in real life, maybe half of what you think it is about at the moment. As is usual with all their other products.