In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/01/00
at 11:35 AM, "David R. Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Hi,
>Because they want you to agree to their licensing terms for the
>specification, the executive summary of which would most likely be:
>"... the Specification is provided to you solely for your informational
>purposes (for review as specified above) and, pursuant to this Agreement,
>Microsoft does not grant you any right to implement this Specification."
>I imagine you can't force people to say "yes" to see the doc if it is in
>PDF.
It's even worse. The morons are trying to claim "trade secret" status for
a specification that they are publishing on the internet. Too bad the
Justice Dept can't just dissolve these SOB's rather than split them up.
Oh well at least there are anonymous remailers. :)
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