There are plenty of examples of contracts that we not able to negotiate, that are still enforceable. Negotiation is not a legal part of contract law. Did you enter into it with full knowledge is.
Stewart Full knowledge of the EULA? Well, that's part of the point, isn't it? Does ANYBODY know all the language that's in the typical EULA before they agree to it? I used to try to read every word of every EULA before I signed off on it, but I finally gave up. The prose on those things reads like the wastebasket shreddings of a major law firm, reassembled in no particular order, combined with extracts from the specs of a nuclear power plant. I mean, have you noticed any EULA's lately where the software company really tried to make it easy for the customer to understand all that legalese? (Maybe other people are buying different software than I've been using lately, with EULA's that the average customer actually can understand on first reading. . . .) And, of course, once you've bought the software, you don't have all that much choice, not in a world where--to take an obvious example--many institutions demand documents in Microsoft Word. (Not compatible documents, not equivalent documents, but genuine Word.) No, I don't violate EULA's, at least not consciously. But with all that legal and technical gobbledygook, I can't ever be 100% sure. --Constance ******************************************************************* ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
