Re: Microsoft to get cranky?

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From: Dr. Jeffrey Race (jrace_at_attglobal.net)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 06:29:02 EDT


On Sat, 4 May 2002 14:50:15 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
>References please.
This was all ventilated on the Spamcon list and the cites would
be in that archive.
>
>Please suggest how anyone can prove that any clicking took place,

One proves that the loading process cannot proceed without clicking
on the I agree icon

 or who
>is supposed to be a party to any aggreement?

A condition of the license is that its conditions apply to any
successor to the person who clicked. If you succeed to the first
owner you inherit all the obligations.

>
>What if everything was set up for you by someone else.
>
>There is no contract between a computer purchaser and Microsoft. They
have
>no rights top resent a EULA subsequent to the purchase of a computer.
Well in fact they do and it is nothing peculiar to the EULA. It is
just the way the law works

>
>Wonder if anyone has ever tried taking a computer back to the store
saying
>that they did not agree with the EULA.

That could be done.

Are they forced to give you a
>refund?
>
>Maybe IBM have such a policy with ThinkPads...

I am told you can buy naked Thinkpads in quantity only and not
through the retail channels.

Jeffrey Race


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