[OT] MS EULA -- (will ActiveState become outlaws? ;-)

[Gerhard Häring]

On 22 Jun 2001 08:50:31 -0700, Samuel Schulenburg wrote:
>I work for a company that has a license from Microsoft to use
>Windows2000 as the OS for one of our products. As a result of the
>licenseing agreement, I can not use Python on any of these products,
>even for internal testing, as the company is worried that their is a
>slim chance that a copy may get shipped with a unit. I can not write
>software that links in any public domain libraries, i.e Zlib. This
>means that I have to write my own compression routines. WHAT A WAIST
>OF TIME!!!

If that was not irony, I'd say it's time to change the job. The responsible
managers should also get legal advice instead of believing such sh*t.

Gerhard
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