"This document has been written in an attempt to review and contrast the
samples of licenses made available by Microsoft and the Free/Open Source
Software (FOSS) community. As these two have now become the most prominent
purveyors of platforms and software application technology in the computer
industry worldwide, we feel it would be instructive for business and
organisational users to have a plain-language analysis of these key
components of the software they use. We will also attempt a very simple
quantitative analysis of what portions of both licenses devote to giving
users rights, taking away user rights, and limiting the extent to which
users can make legal claims or sue the purveyors of the software from both
camps..."
