[ Thanks to Con
Zymaris for this link. ]
“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…”
Complete Story (30-page PDF document)