>- Years since making my first software sale - 35
>- Number of individual software sales made - 300 + (I lost count)
>- Number of times the EULA was an issue - 0
>- Topic that is irrelevant in the real world - this one.
>

I am with you that the discussion here probably is a waste of time. One tiny company I worked for (turning their fwk using xBase-style DBF into C/S using Cursoradapter) received a visit by an Oracle rep, still uncertain if it was ment as a sales pitch or license shake down, after they started to sell their SW with Oracle backend for 2 larger (already Oracle license holder) customers.

Thinking such matters through for own + customer jurisdiction as well as own conscience makes (biz) sense. Part of the heat (at least in my fair city) comes from the gall of

- Rick first claiming global applicability of EULA, 
- making a competing (and already existing) product  target for MS legal eagles with risc of nontrivial cost to Chen
- without first contacting Chen for corroboraton of suspicions based solely on Ricks own abilities
- without being a customer of Chen (or planning to be one in near future)
- probably without knowledge of a concrete customer under US jurisdiction
- and then trying to shroud this action as public service...

(besides the more than occasional preaching style, citing absolutes and so on)

Trying to stop poisoning of the electronic waterhole I like to visit probably has Parkinsonesque attributes, but as those laws seem to govern SW filling up HW gains why not let me pay my dues to them ;-))

>My generation had the benefit of enjoying the ironic wisdom of this fella -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Northcote_Parkinson
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>Somewhere along the way, however, informed discourse seems to have lost its sense of humor.
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>Check out CNP, it's worth the trip.
>
>If that doesn't do it, go back several hundred years more and check out Puck:
>
>"Shall we their fond pageant see?
>Lord, what fools these mortals be"