Re: Do You Read Licensing Agreements?

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From: New Leaf
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:50

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bearclaw@cruller.invalid 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]

Even if I read the clause about getting money for replying I wouldn't
do it. I'm just too suspicious.

Viv

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