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Microsoft's EULA

Started by liquidAir Dec 12, 2002 at 1:59 PM 13 replies 400+ views

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Dec 12, 2002 at 1:59 PM

I was just beginning to wonder, how many people have the time to read the End User License Agreement (EULA) shown whenever you want to install any Microsoft product. I mean, that thing is not less than 5 pages long and it is a very dry boring story! Or should I say just some randomly generated words put together to form sentences. he he! So who has ever read the EULA to the end before?

djkno3

Dec 12, 2002 at 2:27 PM

I do for my beta testing

4-6 pages mostly and yes very boring and usually the same :D

allsorts46

Dec 12, 2002 at 4:43 PM

lol I read it once because I was bored. In the Office 2000 EULA there''s a part which states something like:

Microsoft Java technology is not fault tolerant, and should not be used in environments requiring a high degree of reliability, such as Life Support Machines and Nuclear Power Plants

Warning in life.cpp (8): const Happiness is declared but never used.

AnonymousPosterChild

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AnonymousPosterChild

Dec 12, 2002 at 4:46 PM

Why in the world would anyone use a microsoft product to run a nuclear power plant? What about BSOD?

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Hitchhiker90

Dec 12, 2002 at 4:59 PM

I read the EULA once when I was studying for win95 MCP. We were told we should read it because it might be on the test.

DukeAtreides076

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DukeAtreides076

Dec 12, 2002 at 5:24 PM

Sometimes I might read them. Extremely boring. I wonder how many lawyers Microsoft has to write them.
Check this out:

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You also agree not to permit further distribution of the Redistributables by your end users except you may permit further redistribution of the Redistributables by your distributors to your end-user customers if your distributors only distribute the Redistributables in conjunction with, and as part of, the Licensed Product and you and your distributors comply with all other terms of this EULA.
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That was taken directly from the .NET Framework SDK EULA(Section 3.1). What happened there?

Fruny

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Fruny

Dec 12, 2002 at 5:35 PM

quote:
Original post by DukeAtreides076
You also agree not to permit further distribution of the Redistributables by your end users except you may permit further redistribution of the Redistributables by your distributors to your end-user customers if your distributors only distribute the Redistributables in conjunction with, and as part of, the Licensed Product and you and your distributors comply with all other terms of this EULA.

In brief : You must prevent your users to redistribute Microsoft''s run-time libraries, except as part of your application and only if they accept Microsoft''s EULA.

googlyeyes

Dec 12, 2002 at 7:47 PM

I dont read EULA''s
but I scroll down all the way
just in case they start checking for that

sanguineraven

Dec 12, 2002 at 7:55 PM

I rememeber Napster forced you to scroll down its EULA

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Arild Fines

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Arild Fines

Dec 13, 2002 at 2:24 AM

quote:
Original post by allsorts46
lol I read it once because I was bored. In the Office 2000 EULA there''s a part which states something like:

Microsoft Java technology is not fault tolerant, and should not be used in environments requiring a high degree of reliability, such as Life Support Machines and Nuclear Power Plants

That one comes from the original Sun EULA for Java.

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HenryApe

Dec 13, 2002 at 4:09 AM

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That one comes from the original Sun EULA for Java.

I think Microsoft added that part about their technology not being fault tolerant. Sun's Java license merely seems to state (and I've checked older versions too) that the licensee acknowledges that the sofware was not designed or intended for use in certain critical application areas.

Fun to see that the corporate bashing goes on in the details of the EULAs too.

[edited by - HenryAPe on December 13, 2002 5:09:54 AM]

davidsporn

Dec 13, 2002 at 4:52 AM

The time it would take for me to read a EULA would be time lost for programming.
And I have soooooo little time for programming that it would mean that I would end up with no time for programming. Thus I don''t read EULA.

Any way I buy the products and don''t spread illegal copy, so I think it''s reasonably safe.

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David Sporn AKA Sporniket

liquidAir

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liquidAir

Dec 14, 2002 at 3:19 AM

quote:
Original post by DukeAtreides076
Check this out:

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You also agree not to permit further distribution of the Redistributables by your end users except you may permit further redistribution of the Redistributables by your distributors to your end-user customers if your distributors only distribute the Redistributables in conjunction with, and as part of, the Licensed Product and you and your distributors comply with all other terms of this EULA.
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What the hell is this supposed to mean, just jargons! randomly generated words like I said