Re: [DotGNU]Propoganda starts at home...

[fitzix]

Well, what I meant by "rejecting Microsoft's authority" was not so much
rejecting their legal authority as it was rejecting their ethical
authority to do such a thing.  Yes, I recognize the license irony here,
however, it's not the same thing.  The GPL doesn't restrict people from
taking generic ideas from GPL'ed programs and turning them into
proprietary code (as long as the code is not from the GPL'ed program). 
In this way, Microsoft is using their license to control the behaviour
of people - and I ethically reject their authority to do that.  What's
next?  A Microsoft license stating that anyone who uses Microsoft
software can't develop Free Software?  I mean, it's the same thing as
Microsoft stating that anyone using Microsoft software agrees to drink
Coca-Cola for the rest of their life.  

        -Barry

John wrote:
> 
> I
> I wouldn't reject Microsoft's authority to do this too hard. Sadly, what
> they've done is create a carefully worded viral license of their own,
> except that instead of virally creating freedom; Microsoft is virally
> creating slavery to their APIs. In other words, they're playing the OSs
> tune in reverse, using their licenses to lock-in their programmers to a
> propietary model - all software created with our tools must remain
> propietary.
> 
> Just my two fennigs,
> 
> John Le'Brecage
> 
> fitzix wrote:
> > Do you think that there might be any legal recourse to this?  I mean,
> > just on concept alone - I reject Microsoft's authority to say that
> > someone who has "used" a program can't create something LIKE it.  I've
> > never used nor personally seen a .Net implementation (even though we
> > have one where I work) and I will sign any documentation necessary to
> > show that.  However, there's something really insidious at work here
> > (which I think we can all agree on) and I reject this principal
> > outright.
> >
> > I mean, is this legal?
> >
> >         -Barry
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