[discuss] School boards against free goods? When free turns to expensive...

[Robin Millette]

See answer below.

On 1/10/07, Robin Millette <robin at millette.info> wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Scott Elcomb <psema4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > attention to this situation.  Can you imagine the fallout/media-frenzy
> > if Microsoft, as a company, was found to be using unlicensed 3rd party
> > software?
>
> Actually, something similar happened, but after 15 minutes of
> searching I couldn't find a reference online. Microsoft released a
> theme or something with sounds if I remember correctly. Some of those
> sounds had been created with an unregistered shareware (it was easily
> seen in a .wav comment header). I don't think it was a big deal, and
> not exactly what you were refering too, but it's one incident I
> remember.

I found the beginning of an answer about the shareware Alchemy Mindworks:
http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/2007/01/10/dear-lazyweb-i-need-microsoft-info/