EULAs (Was: Re: XP Performance)

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Edelman [mailto:edelman at speedscript.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:36 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: EULAs (Was: Re: XP Performance)
> 
> 
> A while back I found somewhere on the Kansas government 
> website a law/statute 
> regarding End User Licensing Agreements. Basically, the law 
> states that if 
> before the transaction (exchange of money) takes place, you 
> cannot see all 
> the licensing agreements/contracts, a sale has taken place. 
> As such, any EULA 
> is void, and you can do whatever you wish with the software; 
> it's yours. 
[snip]

Yes,
  The California Federal District court (next stop US Supreme), 
recently ruled exactly this in the "other" DMCA case.
Basically they said 'It's a sale stupid.'

Brian