“The letter, which the two sent to to the American Law Institute
(ALI), was designed to “express our shared concerns with the
group’s draft Principles of the Law of Software Contracts,”
according to a blog post by Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s
Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel.“(Yes, that same Horacio Gutierrez who is known for claiming
free and open-source software violated 235 of Microsoft’s
patents.)“According to Gutierrez’s latest blog post, while Microsoft and
the Linux Foundation have been almost always on opposite sides of
the software-licensing fence, they both agree that the ALI
Principles — designed to provide guidance to judges and others
charged with interpreting software-licensing agreements — could do
more harm than good.”
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