[CLUE-Talk] MS SQL Server licensing issues

[Dennis J Perkins]

Microsoft was found guilty of violating the license to technology or 
code that they used for SQL Server.  I think this happened early this year.
I don't recall where I read about it.

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

>Last week at the cert meeting, someone (Dennis? Jef?) mentioned that
>Microsoft had an issue with licensing, and that people who currently run MS
>SQL Server could be in trouble, and of course MS has not notified people of
>this potential problem. Can anyone provide a link? I'd like to have this bit
>of info at my disposal whenever the "Microsoft is great, so why don't you
>just roll over and enjoy using their crapware" discussions come up...
>
>I thought I remember some hoopla about this in the spring of 2002, but maybe
>that was an entirely different issue.
>
>Thanks,
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