Lawyers should be kept out of customer relations. — webionaire

This aph. is a result of reading about the trials and conflicts of Jamie Cansdale, the author of TestDriven.NET .. here Jamie downloaded VS Express and then produced an add-in for use in “all” versions of Visual Studio. He is now being “lspamd” by MS lawyers about producing something which extends the free VS Express.

For information about the phrases that Jamie is violating(work around technical limitations), see this link to Wendy Seltzer My take: agreeing not to “work around technical limitations” of a product should mean that I have even greater expectation that the product not be designed to constrain my goals or exercise of my skills in reaching those goals. The product has to be “all that it can be” as delivered. That it not have “technical limitations” that limit my using my technical skills.

This is the stuff that drives customers to the “other” companies.

Keep the lawyers in the cube farm; limit their harm. — webionaire