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On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:04:29 -0500, bearclaw wrote:

> <http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp>
> 
> From an article by Larry Magid:
> 
> "OK, let's be honest. You didn't really read the EULA. How do I know? 
> Because hardly anyone does. To prove that point, PC Pitstop included a 
> clause in one of its own EULAs that promised anyone who read it, a 
> "consideration" including money if they sent a note to an email address 
> listed in the EULA. After four months and more than 3,000 downloads, one 
> person finally wrote in. That person, by the way, got a check for $1,000 
> proving, at least for one person, that it really does pay to read EULAs."
> 
> [...more]

I once totaled up the words in a dozen EULA's and averaged them out. It
came to a bit over 4800 words per EULA. Figuring 50 programs and updates
in the average install, that works out to 240,000 words you would have to
read. And we're not talking a quarter-million words of fun-to-read fiction
here, but painfully convoluted legalese, WITH MANY PARTS WRITTEN
ENTIRELY IN CAPS and in some cases viewable only through a tiny 1"x 3"
window.

Is it any wonder people don't read these things?