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California Court: EULAs are Inapplicable in Some Cases

Posted by chrisd on from the user-agrees-to-read-linked-story-before-posting dept.

(outer-limits) writes "In a significant ruling in a California court, a judge has ruled the standard EULA licensing agreement to be invalid. This must be the biggest upset in software licensing ever. No more are we powerless End Users of software, having to agree to every restriction a software company makes (Expect an appeal on this, though)." Note that this is about the resale of bundled software, so it's not like EULAs are dead, but this ruling could have broad effects. Update: 02/12 03:45 GMT by J : Yeah, this is a repeat - sorry.

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  1. Bill? by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is that you?

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  2. Re:Softman v. Abode, done TWICE before on Slashdot by I_redwolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just read, your "What Happened To The Censorware Project". I wouldn't want to see this on the front page. My reasons are simple enough, if you had a webmaster that removed all materials without your consent (or anyone elses) at that point if possible a full mirror of the site should of been made REGARDLESS of what went on or who says what. There is no one else to blame but yourself. Not only that but this is an essay more about people's behavior; I don't necessarily cares what goes on behind the scenes. I don't necessarily think whining is going to change much of anything either. Do your best to get what material you have left and maybe see if google has cache, try to get all relevant information and move on. The explanation isn't without need however, but I don't think this is news for nerds, stuff that matters if you don't make a significant effort to recoupe whatever was lost, then; and only then.. does anyone care. If you don't care enough to get something back up why should I care enough to read about it? Granted slashdot does post absolute nonsense, at least I think they do sometimes. That's a diff issue..

  3. Re:Softman v. Abode, done TWICE before on Slashdot by Seth+Finkelstein · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Pardon me. I see what I wrote is subject to misinterpretation. I WAS NOT suggesting that What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org) should be a front-page Slashdot story (in my dreams, maybe, but that was not my suggestion here ...)

    The censorware.org material has long been retrieved, and is mostly back up now at http://censorware.net. As to not having a separate backup, we mistakenly trusted Michael Sims as webmaster.

    As you see, the destruction was done by Michael Sims, now a Slashdot editor. There is also a great deal of other politics not mentioned my essay. This had, and has, a significant impact on publicizing recent and future anti-censorware work.

    In a moment of frustration over all the grudge-holding politics, compared to front-page slots being wasted on months-old triplicates (not duplicates, triplicates), I vented some of my feelings about Slashdot's editorial lackings in my posting. I shouldn't have done it.

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