Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Aug 2009 13:07 UTC
Mac OS X We're certainly not done yet with Snow Leopard on OSNews! The operating system will be officially released tomorrow, but that hasn't stopped various news outlets from cranking out reviews of Apple's latest big cat. As usual, the reviews are fairly consistent: this latest release is the best yet. In addition, very welcome news for Tiger users: the Snow Leopard "upgrade" disk can upgrade Tiger installations too, and performs no checks to see if Leopard is installed.
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StephenBeDoper
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2005-07-06

Maybe it is time for the EULA to be retired with something simple, "you bought this software, you can make a back up of it; what you do with it in the privacy of your own home is none of our business, if you want technical support, we'll only support you for the number of devices you're licenced for". The worlds shortest EULA.


Or better yet, replace the content of EULAs with nothing but a reference to the applicable copyright laws (IMHO, if an EULA attempts to prohibit actions that are expressly allowed by copyright law, that should automatically invalidate it).

Which would also do away with the overly-broad disclaimers that most EULAs include. Computer software is the only industry I know of where the maker can unequivocally disclaim liability for any problems that occur as a result of using their product.

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