| From: | Rob Iacullo |
| Date: | 30 Sep 2000 at 21:23:06 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: New License Text Available |
> On 30-Sep-00, Deryk Robosson wrote:
>> That is all fine and dandy, but uhm..unfortantely your legal team
>> could not make that stick in any court of law. The only one they
>> could would be the one that the end user agreed to upon
>> installation.
> In German law an agreement is only made if both parties have the
> chance to notice about the conclusion. Therefore if a user clicks on
> "Agree" below that tons of text on a program installation (usually
> under windows) it has no value as this acknowledge is never sent
> back to the software company. Even if the author would put code into
> the installation procedure to send it back it would have no value
> because the user did not expect that. (The fact that no-one really
> reads that (sometimes 1000 lines of) text and
> simply clicks on "Agree" to continue installation makes the
> agreement invalid.) So, at least in Germany, these agreements at
> installation could be omitted.
I don't know how it is in the US, but unfortunately our laws seem to
favor big business rather than the people.
"We the people of the United States..." Yeah, right. :)
Rob Iacullo (Eagle)
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