Bill Jonas on Sat, 2 Sep 2000 00:13:58 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] :Cue:Cat and Intellectual Property


On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 jackw@slinky.jounce.net wrote:

>I'm going to write a letter back to them (after passing it through a lawyer
>and such, of course) explaining my take on your next paragraph, which I
>mostly agree with.

AFAICT, all the onerous stuff is in a (dubious) click-wrap license.  I
was planning on having my fiancee install the software for me on my
Windows box to get around that, but that was before I saw (in the
dead-tree docs that came with the device) that they wanted scads of
personal information.

<question type="rhetorical" value="semi">
So, considering the questionable legality of EULAs and such, and the
fact that I didn't have to sign any contract to get it, *and* the fact
that I haven't installed the software (and thereby "agreed" to the
licensing agreement), am I bound by any terms of use on the device?
</question>

Bill
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