__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 17 February 2007 16:10 \__
> "Aras® Corporation .. today announced the immediate availability of the
> Aras Innovator® open source solution suite. The version 8 release offered
> exclusively on the Microsoft .NET platform"
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes/series9episode3.shtml
>
> ARAS INNOVATOR® LICENSE AGREEMENT 1.1
>
> 'Licensee is hereby granted the following non-exclusive, non-transferable,
> and non-sublicensable rights with respect to Licensed Software and
> Documentation:'
>
> 'Licensee may not sell, lease or sublicense any of the Licensed Software,
> Solutions or Documentation'
>
> 'the Licensed Software as provided by Aras Corporation is provided and
> LICENSED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND .. your exclusive remedy
> under this Agreement shall not exceed five dollars (US $5.00)'
>
> 'You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Licensed
> Software'
>
> 'Aras Corporation may terminate this Agreement .. In such event, Licensee
> must destroy all copies of the Licensed Software and all of its component
> parts'
>
> 'If you sue anyone over patents that you think may apply to the Licensed
> Software .., your license to the Licensed Software ends automatically'
>
> http://www.aras.com/support/downloads/downloadInnovator.aspx
scam.
Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
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