"Dan Kegel" dank@kegel.com wrote in message news:3C35371B.9FF04D0F@kegel.com...
While doing research for my site on the Microsoft antitrust trial ( http://www.kegel.com/remedy/ ), I came across a nasty little EULA for a product called MSNBC News Alert. The EULA is at http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newsalert/naeula.asp and says
MSNBC Interactive grants you the right to install and use copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly licensed copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed
So who specifies for what operating systems the software was designed?
[e.g., Microsoft Windows(r) 95; Microsoft Windows NT(r), Microsoft Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.].
It'd be nice to know how close Wine is to being able to (a) install and (b) run this on a fake windows installation, as this may have some bearing on whether Microsoft is damaging anybody with this exclusionary EULA. (Besides, how could I resist? That EULA practically begs to be
disobeyed!)
It seems to me that one cannot even tell whether one is or is not disobeying it.
Bill