Hi, Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 12:47:59 AM, Mishka wrote:
> ok, get back to me when you get the damages from MS (Adobe/IBM/...) after your > software (firmware/...-ware) crashed. > best of luck. > mishka > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:01:36 -0500, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, unless things have changed (laws here in the good old US of A do that a >> lot), the EULA isn't valid unless it is printed on the outside of the >> package so >> you can read it before you pay your money. here in the good old UK of GB & NI, and probably the rest of the good old E of urope, the EULA is worth about as much as paper I wipe my a*se with. Manufacturers use them to try and intimidate people, reasoning (perhaps correctly) that most people have no idea about their rights as consumers. The manufacturers are protected by the usual laws of patent and copyright. They gain nothing extra by writing a big scary EULA. The customer is protected by the usual consumer protection laws - goods have to be fit for purpose etc. - and loses nothing by the big scary pseudo-get-out clauses written into the EULAs. The manufacturers write them not because they're ignorant of the law, but so that they can threaten claimants with a counter-suite, if the need arises. The thinking behind this is that the claimant is probably not rich enough to defend themself, and will back off, thus saving the greedy robber baron some legal fees and a truckload of copycat suites. -- Cheers, Bob
