EULA: end user license agreement.
You know: that annoying thing you have to agree to after you have purchased what ever it is? A computer. A piece of software, etc. End User License… But you already purchased it! That’s an implied contract. You already have the right to use what ever it is.
“Oh! You wanted to actually use it! That costs more and you have to sign here first…” said no one ever.
But here’s the REAL problem with EULAs. They are not really there for the consumer. They are there in case pirating or otherwise unauthorised usage gets into court. If they don’t have that silly thing in the way of the consumer, then the other side of the law suit (the other lawyers) will amost certainly win the case.
“Well… did you TELL THEM they couldn’t copy it?” Excuse me? That’s a legitimate question?
So, here’s the problem with EULAs. They are only there as a defense for the manufacturer, against the law. Not using the law as protection, but defending themselves from other lawyers abusing the law.
Defense FROM the law. That’s what a EULA is. That’s the problem with them.
And it’s the consumer who has to struggle through all this time-wasting annoyance, when it really has nothing at all to do with the consumer.(1)
And it clearly shows that the law is a messy quagmire of BS, self-interest and special interest and the biggest problem (*possibly*) with the law is Lawyers(2)(3).
Piffle…
Yuck.
And other such wondrous words.
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(1) Actually, it has EVERYTHING to do with the consumer. The product wouldn’t exist without the consumer. It is there to serve the consumer. (After the stockholders, of course.) Yet it’s the consumer who gets hit with the cr*pola. This sort of thing comes under the heading of “Lawyer Footprints” something that wouldn’t even be there except for out-of-control and far-too-many lawyers, all eager to rip off each other and as many “innocent by-standers” as possible. Gah!
(2) And legislators, and courts, and jails that are privately owned profit centers, and prisons that cause recitivism, and, and, and…
(3) Look up Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2