I look at software like I look at food. You tell me that it contains aspartame or brominated vegetable oil so what. When you state NutraSweet or a vegetable oil that has been rinsed with bromine (you all should look that up) I get worried. Maybe the EULA needs to be scrapped with an "FDA" approved version. I can look at a chart relatively quickly. A EULA could take days with all the legalese, big words, and backwards English. The chart could simply contain one liners that describe the issue/function with a hyperlink to an FTC website with a more descript "legal" phrase and common English phrase attached. This would do two things in my opinion. Standardize the "EULA" and hold people accountable for their actions. Whether that be the software vendor or end user. Granted probably a lot of issues with that idea but with the EULA becoming increasingly cumbersome to filter through it makes sense to standardize it in a way that a "competent" adult would reasonably understand the verbiage and commitment. Like I said, just my opinion.

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