Class action suit versus MS, and EULA's about to be declaired unconstitutional?

[SunnyD]

This could be too good to be true...

That prompted Hubbard to reply: "The EULA does not protect Microsoft... While Microsoft's legal department may disagree, state and federal laws prevent enforcement of EULA conditions that violate consumer laws. Based on conversations we've had with experts in the legal community, the EULA is about to be declared unconstitutional and Microsoft and all other software producers who knowingly sell defective software are now going to be held accountable for this consumer fraud".

Despite some poor editing, if one reads this correctly, the US government may just be ready to do away with EULA's. Thank the heavens! However, it would be undoubted that something else will replace it.

I shall definitely stand in the class action line though, if it comes to that. I've been hit by the Microsoft "we broke it but tough sh!t" bugs.

 

[ElFenix]

the constitution doesn't apply to microsoft...


and most of those click throughs are so restrictive that they most likely violate all sorts of regular contract laws

 

[Schadenfroh]

in other news, SCO has announced that UNIX will become open source and is dropping all lawsuits, Rambus released all their patents into public domain, a cure for aids, cancer, and carpas was discovered, a very contagious virus has surfaced that is spreading rapidly that causes females between the ages of 16 and 35 to have massive growth in the size of their breasts, sometimes even tripling their size, the disease is said to be uncurable, and every male on the planet has dissapeared, save thos who are members of ATOT and the earth must now be repopulated, oh yeh, and anand is supreme dictator of the earth and is going to give us all free A64's

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
and every male on the planet has dissapeared, save thos who are members of ATOT and the earth must now be repopulated

I'm up for that!

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
in other news, SCO has announced that UNIX will become open source and is dropping all lawsuits, Rambus released all their patents into public domain, a cure for aids, cancer, and carpas was discovered, a very contagious virus has surfaced that is spreading rapidly that causes females between the ages of 16 and 35 to have massive growth in the size of their breasts, sometimes even tripling their size, the disease is said to be uncurable, and every male on the planet has dissapeared, save thos who are members of ATOT and the earth must now be repopulated, oh yeh, and anand is supreme dictator of the earth and is going to give us all free A64's

w00t, free A64s. :beer:

 

[Dufman]

Come on guys, this is from the Inquirer. How many farces have they printed? You can not believe this.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Dufman
Come on guys, this is from the Inquirer. How many farces have they printed? You can not believe this.

I believe TheInq far more than I do a site like THG.

 

[n0cmonkey]

The EULA is the End User Liense Agreement right? Isn't that what gives people the right to use the software, or does the COA explicitly state your rights? If it is the EULA that tells people what they can and cannot do with the software (under copyright law), and it becomes unconstitutional then no one would have any rights wrt to the software at all. You have no rights unless you are given them. If the license is invalid, you have no rights. Oops.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
in other news, SCO has announced that UNIX will become open source and is dropping all lawsuits, Rambus released all their patents into public domain, a cure for aids, cancer, and carpas was discovered, a very contagious virus has surfaced that is spreading rapidly that causes females between the ages of 16 and 35 to have massive growth in the size of their breasts, sometimes even tripling their size, the disease is said to be uncurable, and every male on the planet has dissapeared, save thos who are members of ATOT and the earth must now be repopulated, oh yeh, and anand is supreme dictator of the earth and is going to give us all free A64's

You mean it's NOT true? :Q

 

[F117NightHawk]

If the EULA is declared unconstitutional, that gives us carte blanche to copy and distribute software CDs. W00T!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: F117NightHawk
If the EULA is declared unconstitutional, that gives us carte blanche to copy and distribute software CDs. W00T!

Either that or it takes away your ability to use the software. Copyright law is still in effect.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Before copyrights were expanded to cover software killing the ability for companies to lincense software would've made it legal to copy software. Shrinkwrap/clickwrap licenses are outdated. They all started because IBM computers were so expensive that they would come with their own programmers to make an OS for them so IBM makes a standard one. Then some IBM clones decided to use IBMs OS and IBM couldn't do crap about it. So they made a lincensing agree to stop users from copying the OS. Since then however copyrights have been extended to cover software so your dreams are unfounded.