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["Chris Owens" <internetworkers_box AT reality-v2-dev.com>]

Right, I wasn't referring to that - I just touched on the portion about
creating content that promotes such things as racism. I was guessing
that portion might be lawyerese for some hopeful protection against
lawsuits such as the ones that the gun manufacturers were recently up
against.  I mean if you create a site that promotes some sort of hatred,
and inspires a hate crime murder - where do the lawsuits stop?  I mean
nowadays people will go after the murderer, and then the gun
manufacturer, the website creator, and it could in lawyer-theory bubble
up to the tool-maker (if you could actually call Front Page a tool...).




Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Minton [mailto:dminton AT mindspring.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:57 AM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] RE: MS FrontPage Restricts Free Speech?

Last time I checked, it was not illegal to write disparaging remarks
against
Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products. Maybe their lobbyists
are
working on it. I wonder if this applies to coverage of the MS Antitrust
trials. It would be interesting to see MS sue the US government for
posting
the trial transcript if the web site was maintained with Frontpage. If I
read the is EULA, if there is one disparaging remark anywhere on a site,
this version of Frontpage could not be used on any other part of the
site.

Since it also applies to products, does that mean I couldn't post a
review
of any MS product if I wanted to mention any shortcoming, even if it was
fact and not opinion?

Has anyone seen this EULA and can attest to its existence?

David

On 9/25/01 10:49 AM, "Chris Owens"
<internetworkers_box AT reality-v2-dev.com>
wrote:

> Seems like a CYA thing so they don't get slapped with lawsuits like
the
> gun manufacturers, at least as far as the law/racism/hatred/porn stuff
> goes.
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Owens
> chris.owens AT reality-v2.com
> 919.345.4339 mobile
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Minton [mailto:david AT designhammer.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:16 AM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: [internetworkers] MS FrontPage Restricts Free Speech?
> 
> Anyone follow the story on Slashdot concerning some interesting text
in
> the
> EULA for Frontpage 2002? It seems Microsoft is now limiting the
content
> one
> can create with their products. This is pretty scary stuff. I wonder
if
> they
> can extend this to the EULA for the Windows Operating System.
> 
> While I have not read the license agreement myself (and this may be a
> hoax)
> the following is from Slashdot:
> 
> In the box was the "Microsoft Frontpage 2002" license on a four-page
> folded
> sheet, titled "End- User License Agreement For Microsoft Software."
> Under
> Section #1, Grant of License, the second paragraph headed
"Restrictions"
> states in part: "You may not use the Software in connection with any
> site
> that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or
> services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these
> parties, violate any state, federal or international law, or promote
> racism,
> hatred or pornography."
> 
> For the complete story:
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/1438251
> 
> David
> 
> 
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