Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Opening Up .Net to Everyone

Second, you cannot use a non-Microsoft copyrighted schema to broker transactions within HailStorm, nor can you alter or build on existing schema without Microsoft's permission.

This was taken from the openp2p article referenced above. To me this sounds like MS expects developers to buy a database with the tables already setup and no way to change anything. How long is it going to take for a manager to ask for something he can't get and then realize the system is unuseable?