On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:49:01AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
This is choice of venue; it means that, if the licensor wants, he can
force me to trek out to Indiana at whim to defend myself in court,
overriding the normal legal mechanisms for choosing a suitable venue.
I believe most of d-legal considers this to be non-free; I agree.
Of course, it also means that if Microsoft uses a derivative of this in
some proprietary component of Windows that the licensor can avoid
having
to trek out to Seattle to contest the issue.