[free-sklyarov] Seybold and "contracts"

[Christopher R. Maden]

At 05:59 27-09-2001, Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
>If you accept the sanctity of such e-book "contracts"
>where you give up your fair use and first sale rights, you must also
>accept the Microsoft contract which forbids you from using their
>products to disparage Microsoft, MSN, Microsoft products, etc.  I
>reject both.

Though I wouldn't use the word "sanctity", this is precisely why I don't 
use MS products (except that I'm stuck with Windows on this machine, for now).

-crism
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