Microsoft threatens MVP with… a lawsuit!
Slashdot reports this rather ironic incident, which is now evolving into a legal battle. It is perfectly clear that Microsoft doesn’t want the users of VS.net Express Edition to be able to use this particular add-on developed by Cansdale (no news, just monopolist marketing). The funny part is that this Weber guy, in spite of being a developer, does not know how to explain what part of this software is illegal:
“Sorry that I can’t be more specific, but I’m just a developer ;-)”
What do you mean? Developers should know more than lawyers on software architecture… well, at least decent developers.
And then we get to ridiculous things like this:
My recommendation would be
something like this…
“After speaking with Jason Weber from Microsoft I realized that by
adding features to Visual Studio Express I was in breach of the Visual
Studio license agreements and copyrights. I have therefore decided to
remove support for the Visual Studio Express SKU’s from TestDriven.Net.
Jason was very supportive of TestDriven.Net’s integration into the other
Visual Studio 2005 products and I was invited to join the VSIP program.
This would allow me to fly to Redmond each quarter and work closely with
the Visual Studio development team on deeper integration.”
Beautiful, no?
Assh*les…