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This seems no different than Tesla prohibiting use of AutoPilot for gainful ridesharing.

• greglindahl 9y ago
  A large amount of computing equipment is sold with the restriction that it not be used to control a nuclear power plant.
  • Too 9y ago
    Did you just make that up? Safety critical systems integrators only buy computing equipment explicitly designed to be safety critical. That's a requirement from the system designer (or possibly the law), not the other way around. If a nuclear plant designer go npm install random package that doesn't explicitly say it's not designed for nuclear plants no amount of lawyers will be able to sue the package maintainer if it fails.
    • teraflop 9y ago
      > Did you just make that up? You could have just googled "nuclear power EULA" to see how common this is, instead of throwing around accusations.
    • JohnHaugeland 9y ago
      I mean, it's actually very common To underscore this, go look at the Java license agreement, which forbids its use in any life critical environment You can't even use Java to raise and lower the wooden arm in front of a toll bridge
• syshum 9y ago
  Yes we all know EULA's contain a lot of moronic crap, just because Company A includes moronic things in their EULA should not be an excuse for Company B to include equally moronic things in theirs.