Microsoft Sends Out Lawyers to Shut Down Competition
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2012-03-13 20:26:32 UTC
- Modified: 2012-03-13 20:26:32 UTC
Microsoft poison pill in the form of EULA
Summary: News about the struggle of a small company against Microsoft's monopoly
THE
EULA is to Microsoft a key part of the business model, which is basically renting binaries over and over again. We wrote about Microsoft's various EULA matters before [
1,
2,
3] and now that a
company makes Microsoft's platform accessible over the Web the lawyers step in:
The OnLive Desktop app enables users to run a Windows desktop on an Apple iPad or Android tablet, freeing users from their PCs even if they want to use Microsoft Office. It’s a great innovation from cloud-streaming firm OnLive, but Microsoft said this week that the app is apparently in violation of licensing terms for Microsoft’s operating system.
Once again we are seeing how lawyers -- not developers -- take a leading role at Microsoft. The target of Microsoft's lawyers is not FOSS this time around. As
Pogson points out, "OnLive has patents, apparently… Sigh. Interestingly, OnLive runs GNU/Linux on their website."
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Comments
Michael
2012-03-14 21:40:19
How dare they!
Still, would be cool if they could work something out so you could pay pennies an hour for use - for those with just the occasional need they would have access and MS and the middle-men would make more money. A win-win for all.