RE: [chat] NZ Company resuses to duplicate Knoppix CDs

["Jon Biddell" <jon@xxxxxxxxx>]

-=> > Honestly, I don't think it's a Microsoft thing so
-=> much as a bunch of
-=> > clueless paranoiacs at the duplicating place.  Yeah,
-=> they could be under
-=> > pressure from microsoft, but I'm a Hanlon's Razor kind of guy.

I tend to agree with that - but lets hope the LUG in NZ doesn't
decide to take it forther with the Lawyers...:-)

-=> But, from the article:
-=>
-=> "Software Images general manager David Hill denied there was a
-=> non-compete agreement with Microsoft.
-=>
-=> But the existence of a 15-page contract with a
-=> non-compete clause was
-=> confirmed by Microsoft competitive strategy manager
-=> Brett Roberts."
-=>
-=> What kind of a "non-compete" clause can there be in a
-=> contract between
-=> MS and a disk pressing company?

Probably that the disk pressing company would not engage in work for
any company which may be in competition with Microsoft....

As M$ said in the article, they are a "strategic partner" - which is
M$-speak for "a company we can intimidate into doing what we want"

Jon