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You didn’t even consider the question I asked. Why are you making the assumption that sale of a lifetime license isn’t currently enforceable by law? The article
by dahart 4y ago
You didn’t even consider the question I asked. Why are you making the assumption that sale of a lifetime license isn’t currently enforceable by law? The article only complained and didn’t attempt to challenge their license. Your idea only works if someone is willing to challenge the company. If the new owners of a company are choosing to break the contracts or the law, why would you expect another contract to help?
There are a million and one promises companies have made to customers and other companies by the time they are acquired. Installing clauses like you suggest for all of them is wildly unrealistic, would be very expensive in billable lawyer hours, may delay or subvert the sale, and above all may be unnecessary/unhelpful/confusing if the existing customer contract is already legally binding.
- Veserv 4y agoI did, in fact, consider the question you asked. The terms are enforceable by law, but the ability to enforce is so limp-wristed and ineffectual as to provide effectively no recourse with respect to getting the specific terms of the contract executed which is what unsophisticated consumers morally deserve in contracts of adhesion (or a immediate full refund). That companies find it inconvenient for their pocketbook and deal flow to actually bind themselves in a effective way to the terms of their promises to the legally unsophisticated public is ethically repugnant. If they do no want to do so then they can just not promise or imply such terms, nothing is forcing them to make promises that they have no intention to be bound by.