Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jun 2007 16:14 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
"What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program?
Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better. As a hobby, Cansdale developed an add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio. TestDriven.NET allows unit test suites to be run directly from within the Microsoft IDE. Cansdale gave away this gadget on his website, and initially received the praises of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft was so pleased with him, it gave him a Most Valuable Professionals award, which it says it gives to 'exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others'. However, his cherished status did not last."
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RE: It's not free when you charge for it.
by Silent_Seer on Thu 7th Jun 2007 22:54
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole situation. It's not clear to me if TestDrives product violates the Visual Studio .Net Express EULA or not. Apparently it's not really clear to anybody else either.
If somebody can quote the portion that says that 3rd party add-ons are prohibited that would be great. I can't find the EULA on-line anywhere. Apparently you have to install the MS software to read it.