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Why should I have to agree to whatever terms MS has set forth just to be allowed to wipe their operating system off of my hard drive?
by glesica 13y ago
Why should I have to agree to whatever terms MS has set forth just to be allowed to wipe their operating system off of my hard drive?
- pfraze 13y agoIt's not ideal, but what are the actual effects?
- InclinedPlane 13y agoA EULA is a legal document, it can contain myriad of terms. Indeed, most EULAs bind you to future as-yet-disclosed terms as well. That's no small thing.
- mikestew 13y agoNote that I commented above that I am in disagreement the way MSFT arranged this. However, to be fair to the one posing the question, the actual outcome of clicking through the EULA to install the OS of your choice is probably nothing (well, you won't be getting your money back for that Windows license). EULA or not, nothing will happen. It's "the principal of the thing". In this case, it's a pretty big matter of principal, though.
- sillysaurus 13y agoIt doesn't matter that the outcome is nothing. What matters is that you agreed to give up your rights. It's an opening for them if they should choose to pursue action against you.
- jeltz 13y agoAs DannyBee said, I doubt a court would hold you to those terms.
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- DannyBee 13y agoMost EULAs cannot validly bind consumers to future as-yet-disclosed terms. As above, in this specific situation, where you are agreeing because that is the only way to effectively remove the software, i have trouble seeing any court holding you to those terms. If you were trying to get around agreeing to the license but still using windows 8, sure.
- glesica 13y agoGoing to court at all is a loss. Why should I have to risk having to pay for a lawyer and take time out of my day to convince a judge that I shouldn't be bound to the terms.
- DannyBee 13y agoYou can always be taken to court, they just don't often take you when they are going to lose. Since that is, here, independent of whether you agree, ...