On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:25:45PM -0500, Patrick Muldoon wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Joshua Coombs Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 3:08 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: win95 and IEAK6.0
While it may be sooner than some would like, I've no qualms with Microsoft cutting off older versions of software. Just think how much smoother and stabler Win95 could have been if MS bit the bullet and dumped DOS/win 3.1 support?
In any case, why do your customers HAVE to use the latest IEAK package to connect to your service? Is it not possible to keep older versions on hand for older systems?
I believe in the Microsoft Liscense for the IEAK. That when a new version is released you MUST upgrade to it in a reasonable amount of time. I am not sure about the exact wording as it has been a while since I messed with the IEAK.
Wow, MS left something to user intruptation in a EULA?! Heh, welp, to me a reasonable amount of time would be, oh, 6 years? : ) In all seriousness, I think that's one of the gray areas that push comes to shove, one could argue against and win legally. I'm not a lawyer though, so don't hold me to that. Joshua Coombs * jcoombs@gwi.net - All opinions, statements and outright lies - contained within are copyright 2001 by - Joshua Coombs and shall not be reprinted - or publicly displayed without ignoring this - useless boilerplate.
-Patrick
-- Patrick Muldoon, Network/Software Engineer INOC, LLC doon@inoc.net
I am still waiting for the advent of the computer science groupie.
Joshua Coombs
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