"We can read the Linspire-Microsoft patent agreement now, or more precisely Microsoft's 'Covenant to Customers', and I thought it would be worthwhile to give it a close, line-by-line reading. I'll explain it as best I can, but ask your lawyer if it matters to you in a real-world sense. For our purposes here, let's just have fun with the worst deal I've seen yet in this category."
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Member since:2006-06-21
Considering how bloody stupid Linspire seems to have been to agree to those terms, humor and sarcasm seems a good approach to the issue. Beats bitterness, anger and so on.
Because if we didn't have humor we'd have to react badly to such deeply sad stuff. It was a commercial Linux distribution which had a decent following and had managed some interesting services with CNR and whatnot, in a time when established commercial Linux distro's that target end users can be counted on the fingers of one hand... And they had to throw it all away. For their sake, I hope it was worth it, because it sure doesn't seem that way from here.
Member since:2006-10-10
It's the only way to read legal documents without being put to sleep. Someone needs to spell out MS's intent, and the "snarkiness" is the best way to put that in print. I suppose you're all about the MS protection money then, right?
Tell you what, how about you read the document, and derive from it whatever you like, post it sans all the humor and bits that make it interesting to read, and let's see if your findings don't match what Groklaw came up with?
Some people.....no sense of humor....
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2005-07-06
I guess it's the readers that claim it moreso than the site. Any site that tries to do legal analysis SHOULD leave out sarcasm/sarcastic remarks, unless it's meant to be a humorous site/article. This clearly is not.
Instead of seeing what their point was and thoughts, all I got was having to wade through sarcastic remarks. It's a shame people enjoy this.