Comments on: Bruce Willis Dying Harder or Killing EULAs

By: Dann

Dann — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:17:36 +0000

@iLia:

So many things wrong with your comment.

Nothing is wrong with a EULA provided it is reasonable. Many aren’t.

Music is governed by copyright, therefore don’t need a EULA.

Not almost everybody wants to consume proprietary stuff. Please post your stats on this.

FOSS is not ameturish content, otherwise IBM, Facebook, Twitter and everyone else who uses a linux server, desktop, android device, is an ametuer. Perhaps some more research is in order.

Free/Open source software doesn’t prohibit you to distribute and use software. It’s funny that you complain about the AUTHORS of software trying to restrict your liberties and freedoms, when it is the proprietary licenses that don’t let you distribute or even give you the source to use in your project. You can find a BSD licensed project if you are so inclined, or view the source of a GPL project and build a compatible piece of software under a different license provided copyright is not infringed.

Your arguments could use some work. Instead you sound spoiled, “why on Earth should I follow GPL instead of doing whatever I want?” where GLP could be any license you don’t agree with at the time.

By: iLia

iLia — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:33:47 +0000

What wrong with EULA? Use free software (there are some people saying that it is better than proprietary), listen to free or “Creative commons” music, you are free to chose, but wait, almost everybody wants to consume proprietary stuff made by professionals who make living by it and not some free amateurish content.

And tell me why these authors of free/open source software dare to prohibit me to use their stuff in my projects without following GPL or its peers. They are trying to restrict my liberties and freedoms, why on Earth should I follow GPL instead of doing whatever I want?

By: ch

ch — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:45:11 +0000

Sometimes German courts can be surprisingly sensible: They ruled that a customer can only be bound by conditions he knew of before purchase. So any EULA you only get to see after purchase isn't worth the paper it isn't printed on.

By: dougman

dougman — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:34:41 +0000

I hate EULAs.

On my website, I explain it for people and have been asked about it a few times.

Take a few minutes and read the End-user license agreements (EULA) for XP, Vista and 7 sometime, you probably will be surprised as to what you may find. Also, there is an important principle that everyone needs to understand — regardless of the pure motives of the parties to a legal contract, the contract may contain “unconscionable” requirements, meaning requirements no reasonable or informed person would agree to if understood.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/05/30/windows-8-eula-prohibits-class-action-lawsuits-against-microsoft/