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fredf@microsoft.UUCP (Fred FREELAND) writes:
>The whole point is, that if you are a normal person, with normal faculties and
>a normal understanding of the language, opening the disk envelope is, by
>definition, agreement with the terms of the licensing agreement. It doesn't
>matter if you think it's bogus or not. If you opened the envelope you have
>agreed, like it or not.
*----
You are mistaken.  What if the agreement stipulated that I had to give
you my firstborn male child?  Or that it gave you the right to any
software produced on my computer?  You can't claim that a shrink-wrap
license is binding because opening the package implies consent.  That
would make any ludicrous conditions applicable by default!  Wouldn't you
also, then, agree that any conditions I write on the check used to
purchase the software are equally binding?  By accepting the check, you have
consented to MY terms.
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	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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