Click and Accept Software Licenses

q2k sent in this tidbit about "click-wrap" software agreements - an analysis of a couple of court cases over such licenses. Good reading for anyone interested in the subject.

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Did you read the bottom of the web page?

[plover]

Before using this site, please read our terms of use. © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Hale and Dorr LLP

(I checked the document source, but there were no IRONY tags around it.)

How enforceable is that? Not only is it at the BOTTOM of the page (where you won't read it until you hit the end of the article in all Western languages), but you have to have done so BEFORE having read the page content?

John

Re:Why no front page?

[GigsVT]

In case you hadn't noticed, slashdot has gotten a lot crappier in the last year or so. It's not the editors, it's the readers, and the posters. Everytime I try to correct someone's incorrect info, I get three posts in reply with personal attacks.

I submit stories of vital importance to online freedom, and instead some anime shit makes the front page.

I've come to the conclusion, I'm going to start to read at +4 on main page stories, and not post unless it is really really important.

It's dissapointing that Slashdot has become this. My karma slides down every time I moderate, because any idiot can metamoderate, and they usually do so badly.

This whole thing is broken. By allowing negative moderation, creating karma, and arbitrary selection of stories, the creators of Slashdot messed up bad. Karma creates a competition, negative moderation allows for revenge in moderation, and arbitrary story selection means that important news will fall through the cracks.

Whew...

OK, that was worth the 2 karma I will lose when I am modded down. :)
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