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To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
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        Xemacs General MailLIst <xemacs AT xemacs DOT org>
Subject: Re: Potentially Viral Software 
In-Reply-To: Message from "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com> 
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:29:52 -0700
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From: J C Lawrence <claw AT 2wire DOT com>

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:08:31 -0400 
David A Cobb <superbiskit AT home DOT com> wrote:

> I hadn't heard of such a category until I read the recent M$ EULA.
> However we should all loudly proclaim:

> DO NOT BUY OR USE POTENTIALLY VIRAL SOFTWARE.  POTENTIALLY VIRAL
> SOFTWARE IS ANY PRODUCT THE SOURCE FOR WHICH IS _NOT_ AVAILABLE
> FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION BY THE COMMUNITY OF PRACTITIONERS OF THE
> TRADE.

The MS Dev beta license is unenforceable in the same way that "you
may not reverse engineer this" licenses are.  Unfortunately this
will mean a few would be contributors who didn't think about it are
scared off.

-- 
J C Lawrence                                       claw AT kanga DOT nu
---------(*)                          http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/
The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows

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