[KLUG Members] Re: Some questions -- WTF are the Microsoft EULAs on-line???

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 19:47, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> I just read the entire EULA from Windows 2000 Pro and could not find any 
> reference to not being able to write reviews of the product without prior 
> approval.  Could you notate where it is?  I would like to show it to my 
> students.

Hold on ... ... ... Geez!  I can't find the EULA on-line very easily ...
still searching ...  I'm trying not only Microsoft's own pages and
search engine, but I'm moving to Google.  Nope, a _lot_ of pages have
been _yanked_!

Okay, I can't find most of the OS EULAs on-line _anywhere_ at
Microsoft!  And they say they have them on-line!  Bullshit!

Anyhoo, for the most part, most "non-server" stuff doesn't matter. 
Microsoft could care less.  It's the servers it does!  Not just Windows
NT/2K/XP Server products but, more importantly, the "add-on" software
where Microsoft does NOT always have a monopoly!

I'm trying to find the "infamous" MS Proxy Server EULA.  It specifically
forbids benchmarking.  They used it to squash the Network Computing
review where MS Proxy Server was found to be not only extremely slow
versus various software solutions, but insecure.  NC also gave
top-honors to Squid.  The same thing happened again just this past year
with MS Internet Security Architecture (ISA) Server versus Linux+Squid
in an NC review.  They took it off-line almost immediately when
Microsoft pulled the EULA.

Well, at least I found one, "cached" by Google.  MS SQL Server EULA
passage:
"e. Benchmark Testing. You may not disclose the results of any benchmark
test of either the Server Software or Client Software to any third party
without Microsoft's prior written approval."

URL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:hE5Am_9iEmMC:www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/pricing/servlicense.asp+Microsoft+SQL+Server+End+User+License+Agreement&hl=en

This is the one Larry Ellison of Oracle is always steaming about.

-- Bryan

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