, 2002-01-23
Software licensing agreements may contain stipulations that could jeopardize your network's security.
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Isn't this a perfect application of the CFAA? (re: Mark Rasch's article on your Front Page)
2002-01-23
Anonymous
Anonymous
Has anyone considered the "Contract of Adhesion" issue that's much like the Automobile manufacturers who had their "UNREASONABLE" restrictions, limitations, and even shortcomings simply "remedied" by the courts' re-writing the contracts as if they were issues in equity (fairness). Therefore, the more unreasonable a vendor's terms are, the more likely a Court will step in and rewrite the license terms based upon it's own concept of what's fair...
Microsoft is likely the first to get hit with this form of Judicial consumer protection.
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