OT - Re: [SGVLUG] FYI - MS Heroes event in Anaheim 4/8 get MSsw w/o paying

[Matt Campbell]

Hi Charles,

It was meant as a joke.  The lack of the little smiley was to indicate a
deadpan delivery.  Sorry for the mis-communication.

(Thanks Steve for the justification! :)

Matt


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
> Behalf Of charles at thewybles.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:46 PM
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
> Subject: Re: OT - Re: [SGVLUG] FYI - MS Heroes event in Anaheim 4/8 get
> MSsw w/o paying
> 
> Ok. This is nonsense. Show me where the EULA says you can't post it.
> 
> I have never seen that in any EULA and I have read every one of them
> from Microsoft.
> 
> Please post proof.
> 
> Unless the original post was a joke. I certainly hope so. :)
> 
> Let's do our best to not spread information if we can avoid it.
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jek at ininx.com (John E. Kreznar)
> 
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:58:15
> To:"SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Subject: Re: OT - Re: [SGVLUG] FYI - MS Heroes event in Anaheim 4/8 get
> MS
> 	sw	w/o	paying
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> "Matt Campbell" <dvdmatt at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Post the EULA?  Isn't that against the EULA?
> 
> Whew!  Who would have thought?
> 
> So I'm looking at an old System32 EULA that happened to be on a
> computer I was given before I overwrote it with Linux.  I can't
> immediately find such a prohibition, but I could easily be overlooking
> it.  Do you have a clue what I should be looking for?
> 
> Incidentally, here's the reverse engineering clause from this EULA:
> 
>  4. LIMITATIONS ON REVERSE ENGINEERING,
>     DECOMPILATION, AND DISASSEMBLY.
>     You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the
>     SOFTWARE, except and only to the extent that such activity
>     is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding
>     this limitation.
> 
> Jason, how does this compare with what you find attached to the
> software that you acquired at MS Heroes?
> 
> - --
>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550
> 705961A47CC541AFEF13
>     No one should ever be made to feel guilty for knowing too much.
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