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To: OldDeckHand

If I recall, most software has a seal, that reads if you open this seal, you are agreeing to the license agreement, so now I guess all you have to do is read the warning on the seal, which means every box of software I pick up from the store shelf is now unsalable. Cool.

The death of common sense leads to this nonsense.


86 posted on 09/13/2010 7:37:29 PM PDT by itsahoot (We the people allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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To: itsahoot

The broken seal agreeing to license terms thing has been thrown out by the courts multiple times. Largely because the license terms can’t be read without breaking the seal and you can’t make people agree to something they can’t possibly have read. That doesn’t stop companies from putting those stickers on, but much like disclaimers those stickers are completely unenforceable.


89 posted on 09/14/2010 8:30:50 AM PDT by discostu (Keyser Soze lives)
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