11/25 Thought of the day: why hasn't anyone thought of trying a class
action suit against M$ for providing the OS due to whose incompetence
90% of currently existent viruses were created? Same goes for the
new wave of M$ Office/Outlook exploits. This should warrant at
least a 10-digit number in punitive damages (if not 11 or 12), no?
(And no, I don't observe thanksgiving).
\_ read the agreement on the package.
\_ EULA or not -- as far as I know, _even_ if one agrees to some
disclaimer, the disclaimer can be deemed invalid under certain
conditions.
\_ My EULA says that upon opening the shrinkwrap (which is required
or you can't read the EULA) that you owe me your body, mind, soul
and all personal wealth past, present, or future unless you live
in Guam, the Virgin Islands, or Idaho where this agreement does
not apply. In return you are allowed to use my software on one
computer until such time as I feel otherwise and you have no
recourse if I break your computer or the software does nothing
because the CD is a blank. You agreed to all this upon opening
the shrinkwrap. Now that you understand how a M$ EULA works,
you think it'll protect them from any lawsuits?
\_ heh it would seem that YOU don't understand much about the
law. to answer your (idiotic and uninformed) question,
no, that probably won't, and if you didn't spend all your
time wacking off to nudie pics downloaded from the web
you'd realize that there are already lawsuits that have been
filed in response to the findings of fact. Stop posting
on the motd until your mind is at least 8 years old. Oh and
happy thanksgiving.
\_ There's no connection between the monopoly issue, which'll
certainly see the light of day time and time again, and
what I'm talking about above. The OTHER sin that M$ is
guilty of is writing shitty code, shitty enough to create
a cottage industry of virii for their platform of
unparallelled dimensions. I'm sure I don't need to bring
up specific instances... we've all heard more than we
wanted to about the recent Outlook exploits. The question
is why THAT hasn't gone to court yet. -original poster
wanted to about the recent Outlook/Office exploits. The
question is why THAT hasn't gone to court yet.
-original poster [not author of the 2nd EULA post above] |