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Re: Interesting terms in Microsoft Visual BASIC shrink-wrap license

To: brett@lariat.org
Subject: Re: Interesting terms in Microsoft Visual BASIC shrink-wrap license
From: Wandered Inn <esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:37:09 +0000
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Brett Glass wrote:

<snip>

> In other words, Microsoft's "agreement" attempts to prohibit developers
> from writing applications that compete with parts of Microsoft's Office
> suite. It also prohibits developers from using the docs to develop programs
> for non-Microsoft platforms that can read Office files.
> 
> Is this enforceable, I wonder?

When you're a monopoly, yes.

> 
> --Brett Glass

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????

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