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EULA Terms (none / 0) (#1)
by Seaan on Wed Apr 30, 2003 at 01:31:12 PM PDT

Personally, I tend to ignore EULA terms, especially those that are legally unenforceable (such as Microsoft's anti-benchmark clause).  The problem with this strategy is when manufactures build controls into their program that enforce them - Intuit's Turbo Tax is a good example.  When that happens I return it or avoid buying it in the first place.

The issue is more difficult professionally; both because there is more risk and because there is typically less flexibility in choice.  When I worked on a software selection committee for a large company, the best I could do is to bring up these issues for consideration and try to get them "priced" into the decision.  

Unfortunately I never saw the EULA derail a deal, although they did make some people pretty unhappy.  Of course that was a few years ago and things seem to have gotten much worse.  Another bad trend is the changing the EULA after the fact (pioneered by Microsoft and their infernal need of security patches and bugfixes).



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