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.
The web is full of SQL 2005 benchmarks, your claims they are somehow prohibited seem terribly thin. Plus you're still confused thinking you have rights by birth to something you don't actually own.