While Microsoft may cast the Nov. 2 patent cooperation agreement it pushed on new partner Novell Inc. as a way to protect corporate users of the SUSE Linux operating system from potential lawsuits, CIOs today said they weren't worried in the first place.
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But not with a software kit or a music CD or a movie, oh no. Here, they try to tell you what you can and can't do with the CD or DVD you bought, and the software will go dead on you or revoke your usage rights at the producer's whim. They try to keep all competition from innovating or improving or producing anything new, so they can sell basically the same things over and over, for more and more money. You have to be really stupid or ignorant to take something like this.
This is specific to the US. In any other country I know EULAs are actually not legal. Eg: they hold no legal value. For all I care I can install windows here and piss on their EULA. Technically I could sue them to force me to accept something which law doesn't allow (even if I accept the EULA it's not binding because only license terms which are binding are those you accept at the transaction, not sometime you open the box).
I think US should cut the crap and get the balls to drop patents and EULAs.
Edited 2006-11-23 09:28
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2006-06-21
That's because the IT and music/film industry tries to give new meanings to things that used to be clear, and by "new meanings" I mean stuff like "black is white".
Whenever you buy something, like a used car, once the deal is over, that's it. The car is yours to do as you please with it. The seller can't come after you and make you agree to more crap after that, can't take it back, can't cripple it, can't force you to ditch it and buy another one from him.
But not with a software kit or a music CD or a movie, oh no. Here, they try to tell you what you can and can't do with the CD or DVD you bought, and the software will go dead on you or revoke your usage rights at the producer's whim. They try to keep all competition from innovating or improving or producing anything new, so they can sell basically the same things over and over, for more and more money. You have to be really stupid or ignorant to take something like this.