[zeugma]

While this is a fairly good thing, it is not quite the ground-breaking decision that the article has made it out to be. MS and other companies will still be able to use the same burdensome licenses that they've had before, but now they have to have a URL pointing to them printed on the box. Big woop. For this to have actually been effective as a consumer remedy, they should have been forced to include the license itself on the packaging so it can be read by the consumer at the point of sale.

Pointing someone to a website that can change at any time is pretty darned ineffective IMO. We've seen these licenses get worse, and worse each year. Did the folks who eagerly lapped up the XP-SP2 fix have any choice but to accept the licenses proffered by microsoft if they wanted to have the fix applied to the defective software they'd previously purchased? Some choice. Either continue to use a demonstratively defective product, or agree to a new, and even more restrictive license than you had before.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am liking Linux better and better.....

[Light Your World]

I would think an easy solution would be the one I use with my commercial software products: have the customer read, agree to, and sign the license before selling him/her the software package.

If Best Buy, etc, can automatically print rebate info at the cash register, why can't they print software licenses, too?