I'm not arguing with you about any of those points -- the EULA is clearly ridiculous. However, I think it's reckless to tell people they can just ignore it unless:
- You are a lawyer. - You are willing to go up against a multi-million-dollar legal team if someone does this and gets called on it by the BSA. The idea is it's a contract, and if you don't like the terms you don't have to accept it by buying the software. Software companies are currently going through a lot of effort to pass UCITA to ensure these shrinkwrap or click-through contracts are legally enforcable, and they're meeting surprisingly little resistance from people like us because we just assume we'll always be able to ignore them. -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Lovitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: AW: Timeout Problem with XP - firewall not the problem Enjoy your VNC connections with impunity. The real crime was committed by the lawyers that wrote this EULA tripe to begin with and the MS Execs who approved it. Glenn Lovitz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
