Mike Hall - MVP wrote:[color=blue]
> "The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'"
> <me211@privacy.net> wrote in message news:grm84p$tgk$1@aioe.org...[color=green]
>> Alias wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> [url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131339[/url]
>>> Now ain't that nice, MS gets fined for stealing WPA. The irony! MS
>>> gets conviction of stealing the program they use to make sure no one
>>> steals from them!
>>>
>>> Alias[/color]
>>
>> Oh, that is priceless! Thanks for sharing. :)
>>
>> --
>> "Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
>> - Linus Torvalds
>>
>> DRM and unintended consequences:
>> [url]http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=435&tag=nl.e101[/url][/color]
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> Its states an infringement of a patent, not theft directly. Either way,
> it has cost MS dear..
>
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Maybe I misunderstand, but if infringing on a patent is not theft, then
how is not adhering to a eula theft? How many times have people in this
ng been called thieves because they are outside of the parameters of a eula?

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