David Johnson scripsit: > A menu at a restaurant clearly lays out the "terms" of the contract: a > particular price in exchange for a particular item. The fact that you pay fo > the item after you have used it does not make it very much different from any > other commercial transaction.
Not my point. The menu is a contract you're stuck with: your only recourse is to go elsewhere if you don't like the terms. > Contrast this to the MS EULA. You think you are engaging in a typical > commercial transaction. You pay your money and you get a shrinkwrap box. Then > you go home, open it, and discover a piece of paper that says you have > already agreed to terms you have never seen before. Typically the actual product (CD or whatever) is inaccessible without getting past the contract. Caveat emptor. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
