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Re: MS and ownership rights

• Posted by j.f.deneken at hccnet.nl Apr 10, 2001
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
>
> Microsoft has not wanted this to be public, but here goes.......
>
> The terms of use of the Passport program and their email services gives
them
> ownership of anything passing thru their computers. While this could have
been
> argued in court for/against all email or internet providers (and employers
*have*
> argued this in court and won), the small print you don't read when using
MS email
> providers, or Windoze XP, puts the weight of law squarely in their court.
>From a web
> page:
>
> Windows XP will integrate the Windows authentication system with the
Passport
> authentication system, so a user can log onto Windows XP a single time and
also
> be logged onto Passport
>
> http://www.moongroup.com/stories.php?story=01/04/02/0156291
> (additional info on the web page)
>
> So if you develop anything remotely commercial with Eu, and write it on
the MS XP
> OS, or send it thru one of the MS email providers, or the MS satalite
wireless
> hookup, you may find MS knocking on your door demanding royalties from you
for
> using your own program! Chances are fairly good that they will claim
ownership of
> this email too, since some of you use hotmail, etc.....
>
> Kat
>
>

Fritz Deneken


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