Do you read the EULA

Kenny Yates · Post by **Kenny Yates** » 8 Dec 2005 5:17 pm

Everyone should...I've really started reading them carefully since the Sony mess. I saw one today that was really bad. You give the company the right to audit your computer at your expense if they suspect that you are doing something against their license whatever that may be. Obviously I declined.

Ken

Mike Ester · Post by **Mike Ester** » 8 Dec 2005 6:43 pm

Good for you! I hate those draconian license agreements. That's why I try to only use GNU GPL-licensed software as much as I can.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 8 Dec 2005 8:19 pm

I use a program called EULAlyzer to parse the contents of Eulas and reveal any interesting passages or mention of any bundled third party additions. The program is available in both freeware and pro versions, from the author of SpywareBlaster, at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 9 Dec 2005 1:29 pm

Mrs. Lee had a Dell program called AlertNotify in her taskbar. I tried to view the alert log with it, and encountered a license agreement that gave Dell the right to download anything they wanted from her computer. I declined, but I couldn't find a way to disable AlertNotify.

Finally, I found AlertNotify.exe on her hard disk and renamed it AlertNotifyDISABLEDbYb0b.exe. After rebooting, the system was unable to find the utility and her system was happy.

This just happened last night. I'm glad I read the EULA!

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Kenny Yates · Post by **Kenny Yates** » 10 Dec 2005 6:33 am

If I remember rightly, I believe the program I am refering to is call "Swishmax".
Ken

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 10 Dec 2005 6:44 am

I have always considered the reading of these license agreements to be so utterly hopeless as to be a joke. I figured that nobody read them and that in the end you could claim "don't be ridiculous" in a court of law and win. I am distressed at what I am reading here. I can't tell you how may times I have said "yeahyeahyeah, I accept, now install the damn program".
Time to rethink.

Mike Ester · Post by **Mike Ester** » 10 Dec 2005 8:20 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I am distressed at what I am reading here. I can't tell you how may times I have said "yeahyeahyeah, I accept, now install the damn program".
Time to rethink.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Didn't the EULA for Microsoft Frontpage contain a clause stipulating that you agree not to use Frontpage to create Web content that disparages Microsoft, its products, and its subsidiaries?

This is why my desktop machine is GNU/Linux only.