Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he included the line that "Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all rights to their immortal soul to me." He had over 5600 downloads, and only three people caught that language.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They > have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time. > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s >> software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it... >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010 >> >> - By Brian X. Chen <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/> [image: >> Email Author] <brianxc...@gmail.com> >> - June 29, 2010 | >> - 8:07 pm | >> - Categories: >> Miscellaneous<http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/> >> - >> >> For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse >> clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the >> world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions >> of people work. >> “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.” >> –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough >> >> Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity >> suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the >> software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2 >> million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in >> Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could >> observe how people were using new features. >> >> Read More >> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX >> >> >> -- >> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell >> wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
