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I agree with what you mean but not what you say. If you sign a real contract without reading it you're still responsible. The only thing is that EULAs are prett
by Hexstream 18y ago
I agree with what you mean but not what you say. If you sign a real contract without reading it you're still responsible. The only thing is that EULAs are pretty far from a real contract. And I doubt the cat argument would stand in court.
- jrockway 18y ago> And I doubt the cat argument would stand in court. I wouldn't argue it that way in court. I would say "I popped in the install CD, I went away, I came back and the software was working. If there was an EULA, I never agreed to it." Knowing how buggy software in general is, it would be easy to argue that a bug prevented the EULA from showing. The key is proving that I would have returned the software if I saw an EULA. Not that anything like this would ever see the inside of a courtroom. EULAs only exist so that the corporate lawyers have something to entertain themselves during the litigation off season (if there is such a thing).
- Hexstream 18y agoI don't think dishonesty is a responsible strategy. Better dismiss the legitimacy of the EULA than implicitly acknowledge its validity with your false assertions (if you argue that you didn't read it then you're saying it's relevant).