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End User License Gems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-agree dept.

satosphere writes "TG Daily has an article on EULA Gems, priceless statements that companies want you to agree to in their End User License Agreement." From the article: "You agree, if purchasing by credit card or charge card, that you permanently and irrevocably waive any and all right to cause a 'chargeback' ... You agree that, if you institute such a "chargeback", it constitutes a material violation of this license, and damages Company in ways impossible to calculate, and with long-term adverse effects to the Company."

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  1. Readers Digest Edition of a basic EULA: by dcapel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All your base are belong to us.

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  2. Not quite... by kcb93x · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft's OS's have never been licensed for 2 installs - but all copies of Office do. (The employee take-home copies of Office do NOT include this clause, other volume-type versions may as well)

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  3. Depends on who initiated the chargeback by tepples · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "you agree that your sister will never ask me to borrow money" and expect that that actually obligates your sister not to do anything, even if you do sign it.

    What about "you agree that you will never ask your sister to ask me to borrow money"? Then if she does ask, the onus is on "you" to prove that she asked not because of you. That's the correct analog to "you will not initiate a chargeback transaction through any financial institution involved in payments associated with this Program".

  4. Re:From MS by einhverfr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The primary user of the computer on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is installed may make a second copy for his or her exclusive use on a portable computer."

    I love that sentence. In non-legalese:

    If you let your wife or child use Word on your laptop (second install) than you have violated the EULA.

    Ok, subsequent questions include:
    1) Does this mean that if you lose your rights to use the software?
    2) What sort of draconian measures can Microsoft use to enforce this?
    3) Why is it OK for one to use the second install and let others use the primary install but not vice versa?

    Soon we will see biometric locks on second installs probably :-P

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  5. OUCH... by Rank_Tyro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    'nuff said.

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