On Friday 16 May 2008 08.07:44, Sam Clemens wrote:
The MS EULAs state that you can't publish any comparisons between MS products and other products without written consent from Microsoft.
In other words, MS says that the ONLY comparisons you can make with MS products is with other MS products. I.e. you are only allowed to compare crappy with not-as-crappy.
But as I said...it's an empty threat. No court in the world would recognize a contractual "obligation" to surrender your Right of Free Speech.
If you are just a user of W (and not the one who committed the computer misuse by installing it) you didn't even click any accept-box and you are not bound by any EULA or whatever contract and can compare no matter what. Even if you installed a W, you can still compare W on another machine, where you havn't accepted anything... However, at least here in Switzerland you can accept all and every clickable post-sale contract. It's just for nothing: all contracts are null if you see them only *after* the purchase of the product. But of course it's much better not telling anybody when using W. People could laugh at you. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org