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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Ice-9 on 23 October 2002, 01:11

Title: Is Microsoft Licensing Forcing Banks to Break The Law?
Post by: Ice-9 on 23 October 2002, 01:11

Lester Warby is the kind of guy who reads the fine print. And the fine print for the latest updates to Microsoft Windows has him worried.

Warby -- who is the chief information officer at Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union -- believes that the terms for the end user license agreement (EULA) for Microsoft's Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and XP Service Pack 1, might well put the credit union in violation of new federal privacy laws.
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"We're forced into a position where we're either out of compliance with Microsoft's licensing, which is not acceptable, or we're out of compliance with the law, which is not acceptable either. Under these circumstances, we'll probably change our operating system," says Warby.

Warby is considering shifting his servers to another operating system like Novell or Linux, if Microsoft doesn't change its policy.

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1485861 (http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1485861)

Title: Is Microsoft Licensing Forcing Banks to Break The Law?
Post by: Refalm on 23 October 2002, 20:16

If there where more smart company bosses, Microsoft would go out of business...

Title: Is Microsoft Licensing Forcing Banks to Break The Law?
Post by: Calum on 23 October 2002, 20:20

good for him.
it is good to see that some people are not too stupid or too scared to exercise their gods given right to a free choice.

Maybe the herds will follow suit if more people start thinking for themselves.

Title: Is Microsoft Licensing Forcing Banks to Break The Law?
Post by: AlexMax on 23 October 2002, 23:58

This, if anything, should be the hint that we have been waiting Microsoft to get that they are not invincible and most of all are not the law.

Finally...