Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption ( warning: long rant follows)
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Feb 14 17:30:50 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:34, Craig McLean wrote:
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>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 09:58, Claude Jones wrote:
>>> On Tue February 14 2006 9:46 am, John Pierce wrote:
>>>> Claude, if possible, you should document what this is doing and
>>>> hang on to it. Could be useful by the DOJ.
>>>
>>> I doubt that. Microsoft is very careful about their disclaimers
>>> regarding their beta software. If you install, it's your gamble,
>>> not theirs...
>>
>> Those disclaimers are in the eula, right? When was the last time a
>> click through eula that prevented one from breaking the seal, and
>> which required the seal to be broken to see, was held up in court?
>>
>> I submit it wasn't unless the judge was a golfing buddy for someone
>> at M$.
>
>Actually Gene, I believe the answer is a simple "Never". I don't
> recall a EULA *ever* being tried sucessfully in court. Someone will
> surely correct me if I'm wrong, though.
>
>Oh, and I Am Not A Lawyer.
Neither am I Craig, but at 71, I'd like to think I've collected some
common sense along the way. And I think, but can't place where I
heard/read it, that a eula was actually judged as invalid and not
applicable because there was no way have read the eula without breaking
the seal.
>C.
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