Is www.masm32.com an official Microsoft site?

From: hutch-- (hutch_at_masm32.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: 23 Dec 2004 17:19:58 -0800

There has been a reasonable amount of nonsense posted in this thread
and while a member of the masmforum was kind enough to post my reply,
it seems there are a number of issues to resolve.

The "OFFICIAL" Microsoft site is www.microsoft.com .

The website www.masm32.com is NOT an official Microsoft site. It is a
violation of normal trademark to claim that a site is associated with
or affiliated with another company/organisation when it is not.

Use of the MASM32 project is dependent on proper compliance with the
licencing which includes a Microsoft EULA for the Microsoft binaries
included in the project. As the licencing issue has been raised by a
number of people rowing the GPL boat, I contacted Microsoft again
early this year and dealt with both the licencing division and the
copyright permission division and the response was that the EULA
contained in the MASM32 project is valid in that context and that
users of the binaries are expected to fully comply with the terms of
the licence.

The negotiations are of a non-disclosure nature and no information
whatsoever will be made available to any party about the
persons/departments/divisions involved in the verification of the
EULA.

As a member of this group was stupid enough to post my residential
address in an international newsgroup, it should be obvious that I am
the webmaster of www.masm32.com and the information that a member of
the masmforum posted for me is in fact the statement of the webmaster
of the masm32 site.

The MASM32 Project passed the one million download mark about 2 years
ago and I no longer track the download count but it is a project
designed to empower programmers who are interested in either learning
or writing 32 bit Microsoft assembler to assist in writing faster and
more powerful software for the Windows operating system.

Microsoft have been both very helpful and supportive with the project
and it again displays their goodwill to the general Windows
development community.

Any person who is interested in successfully writing 32 bit MASM for
Windows is welcome to join the masmforum at www.masmforum.com . We
have many very experienced MASM programmers as members and moderators
who can help you get up to pace using MASM.

Regards,

hutch at movsd dot com

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