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The EULA is still an agreement. Potential end users have an opportunity to not accept the agreement and walk away. I think this ruling is populist pandering t

• matheusmoreira 5y ago
  > The EULA is still an agreement. Agreements can't violate the law. They most certainly cannot deny people their rights. > Potential end users have an opportunity to not accept the agreement and walk away. No, they can and should be able to use the software regardless of any abusive clauses included in the contract. Companies should be punished for even thinking they could get away with confusing laymen with their illegal conditions. People have the right to reverse engineer. Companies are just gonna have to deal with it. It doesn't matter if they lose money. > Undermining property rights has never resulted in freer societies. Real property rights, yeah. Intellectual property is not real property. It barely makes sense in the 21st century.
• yariik 5y ago
  > The EULA is still an agreement. I can't agree to anything that is impossible for me to understand or even to read.
• no_time 5y ago
  This is the exact opposite of undermining property rights. You sold a thing to me. Your control over that thing ends when I hand over the money. I may be forbidden from patching in a new logo and reselling it, but you that's about all you can expect me NOT to do with it.