Just to make it clear: I never suggested people should click on EULAs
without reading them, I am just one of the many who suffer a bit from peopl=
e
in my addressbook (or, rather, people in whose address books I am, sometime=
s
without my knwledge), doing that.

Anyway reading an EULA, besides the strong soporific effect upon anyone wit=
h
more than half a working neuron, which I assume is a design feature of such
contracts taught in law school and likely designed with aid from
professional psychologists, is not for the common man. If anyone wants to
actually understand what an EULA means, one should ask a professional
lawyer, or look for suitable professional comments online. The text alone
may not be the whole story, with legal precedents setting the scene for any
possibly litigy later in certain countries. That is also true for most
contracts one signs in general, paper or not ... sigh. Who has the time and
stamina to do that anyway? Perhaps after realizing that the contract is
intended to be difficult to read by the layman, precisely to promote just
*this* aversion reaction, one will try harder to understand next time, but,
not alone. 2 hours of googling will not replace a lawyer degree &
experience. The reverse of this is also true. A layman signing a complex
contract can later argue that he did not fully understand all the
implications of what he signed, without being dim-witted. And there are
precedents to that, too!

(I am not a lawyer, but I have been swindled by several, and have
contributed some to their wealth)
-- Peter


--=20
http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist
.