Obviously only to those such as yourself who seem to think you have rights to someone else's property by default. Otherwise you couldn't possibly see someone who is protecting THEIR property as taking YOUR rights away.
Wrong, oh so wrong. Let's say I buy the full MS SQL Server 2005, install it on the appropriate machine IAW the licensing, and otherwise abide by the license. I have no problem with that at all. I have thousands of dollars worth of properly licensed proprietary software.
Otherwise you couldn't possibly see someone who is protecting THEIR property as taking YOUR rights away.
Wrong again. They are not protecting their property from copyright infringement with these terms. Again, that's copyright, the right to copy. What I disagree with is Microsoft telling me I cannot exercise my First Amendment right to free speech and publish a benchmark of my properly licensed SQL Server 2005 without prior Microsoft approval.