SCO's new offensive

SCO's new offensive

Posted Jul 24, 2003 11:02 UTC (Thu) by one2team (guest, #7316)
In reply to: SCO's new offensive by flewellyn
Parent article: SCO's new offensive

Most shrink-wrapped licenses are almost certainly abusive and at least partly illegal/void in most of the world. They rely on the fact

- almost no one reads the fine print
- most of the people who read it know it's junk and do not bother invalidating them in court
- it's easier to intimidate people with stuff they do not understand
- parts of them may have been upholded at some time in a *US* court

Why do you think so many of them state "parts of this document may not be legal your country" ?

(as to why companies bother with them - do *YOU* think a company lawyer will tell his clueless boss he's paid to write junk ?)

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