On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > I'vew since looked at their web site and found out: > > 1. The $100 is a "membership" fee not a license fee. > 2. Youhave to sign an NDA, "just as any Lindows.com employee would". > > This rings lots of alarum bells to me. > > First, I can't see sending them any money to be an ALPHA tester of their > code. >
> Third,I have no desire to establish an employer/employee relationship > with lindows.com. > > In plain English, it stinks. :-) I agree with the above, but: > Second, It's amembership fee because they can't charge a license fee. > Fancy wording to get around something that they can't do because > it is wrong. They don't want to charge you for a license fee (read: they may charge you later for a license fee). Do they mention anywhere the expected license cost? They have every legal right to charge you for license fees. Wine is not under any GPL/LGPL license, and anybody can fork a propriotary product from its codebase. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
