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New name, same smell

Date: April 5, 2002
Author: Russell Pavlicek
QUOTE: The list of customer duties in [software] licenses grows longer and longer, while the list of vendor responsibilities seems to dwindle.

ABSTRACT: A short broadside against Microsoft in particular and proprietary software companies (those who do not use open source) in general for licensing terms that are increasingly onerous and, in his opinion, sophisticated forms of extortion.

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