On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:49:01AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > This is choice of venue; it means that, if the licensor wants, he can > force me to trek out to Indiana at whim to defend myself in court, > overriding the normal legal mechanisms for choosing a suitable venue. > I believe most of d-legal considers this to be non-free; I agree.
Of course, it also means that if Microsoft uses a derivative of this in some proprietary component of Windows that the licensor can avoid having to trek out to Seattle to contest the issue. [Personally, I'm more ambivalent about this being a non-free issue than you.] -- Raul
