Microsoft's protocol license agreement

Microsoft's protocol license agreement

Posted Nov 8, 2004 15:21 UTC (Mon) by ccchips (guest, #3222)
In reply to: Microsoft's protocol license agreement by nowster
Parent article: Microsoft's protocol license agreement

I suppose I should read the darn thing, but the above posting shows how this nonsense really grates.

I talked to Randy Suess a couple times, and Ward Christensen's original documentation of Xmodem was in front of my face for years. My company used Kermit to transfer files back and forth, in a platform-independent manner, and to access our mainframe as a terminal, for just as many years. Some of the time, the systems we used for terminals didn't even *run* a Microsoft operating system.

This *thing* from Microsoft is really a great example of how sickening this industry is getting lately. Where are the major efforts, on the part of these behemoth corporations, to stop the widespread criminal invasion of privacy on the Internet, through spam, viruses, and spyware? Why are they instead trying to claim rights to work that does not belong to them?

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