Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:00

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Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> The MS EULA's non-copyright specific restrictions are mostly invalid in
> the UK. If MS were ever to take a case all the way to court and loose
> they would have to re-write all their licenses for UK customers.

Hence if they look likely to loose they will go for an out of court
settlement. Leave whatever isn't true in the text and hope that 
no-one else will realise it has no validity.

> There is also the question of whether ANY part of a MS EULA is valid in
> the UK as for a contract to be binding in England and Wales (not so in

Also it would appear to be inconsistent with having the software 
pre-installed anyway :)

> Scotland) both parties have to know who each other are at the time the
> contract becomes binding and MS have NO WAY TO KNOW that you have just
> bought from a shop and opened a copy of MS Windows of any other MS
> product.

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/09
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