>I heard about this the other day. IMO...and remember...I'm not a lawyer...the EULA wording for the Express skew is vague and could be interpreted either way.
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>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/microsoft_mvp_threats/

I followed this case and many of the community reactions from the side of a long time fan of this little tool (even while I do use Resharper instead for Unit Tests, I still recomend this as it is free).

In my opinion, Jamie did not react in the best way, but the guy at Microsoft managed the situation in a completely bad and insulting way. Also, I understand that the Express EULA can be trying to limit the product extensibility, but I guess this is just a stupid marketing/legal decision that MSFT should review. It doesn't make sense to make a development tool non-extensible (and worst: by EULA, as there is no proper technical block to it). If they released a tool for free to engage more developers, blocking extensibility is just a complete lack of understanding of the development community as a whole.

Time for Microsoft to listen to the people they have inside that *truly understand* how to address communities.

What a shame...