OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 19:17:05 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:09, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > They do use it, they just can't distribute it - not even if they
> > want to give it away. Which means that the rest of us won't
> > ever have it.
>
> Erm, I used a contraction of the clause "use ... in a commercial product".
If the commercial part involves duplicating and selling copies
that changes things. You can provide a commerical service with
the custom-built instance, though. I don't think building
a unique custom software product as a 'work done for hire'
that ends up owned by the end user would trip copyright laws
either if you don't duplicate it for another customer.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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