Le 30/08/2013 21:25, Phil Pennock a écrit : > On 2013-08-30 at 01:08 -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: >> The website now has a terms of service document for how to use the NTP Pool >> -- >> >> http://www.ntppool.org/tos.html > You'd need to consult professional legal advice to be sure, but my loose > understanding (at a level of "knowing what laws might bite in the field > I work in, to ask a lawyer then") is that if a contract says "we can > change this at any time, without notice" then US legal precedence says > "that's not a contract, we're throwing the whole thing out and leaving > you legally unprotected, perhaps with some prejudice because you tried > to pull a fast one". > > The point of a contract, even a shrink wrap contract, is that it locks > down the terms so that both parties can be in agreement. The moment > that one side can unilaterally change the terms, it's not a contract, > nor a ToS, even if it calls itself such, and AIUI judges look > unfavourably upon such pseudo-contracts. > > So point 6 probably needs some professional attention from people > skilled in law in the jurisdiction declared in point 8 to figure out > how much notice or agreement is needed to make the rest of the contract > sufficiently unlikely to be thrown out. > > So you say that google, amaon, and other's contract are not valid ?
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