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Comment Re:Caps Lock (Score 2, Interesting) 277

100% true. Just as egregious is the way that the EULA is typically displayed to you in a window 4-6 lines high, and 30-40 characters wide. Given the size of computer displays, and the ease of providing a resizeable text window, there's no reason to hard code such a small viewport onto the document. Unless the publishers of the EULA don't want people to actually read the EULA. It's akin to giving someone a written contract, but only allowing them to read the contract through a cardboard cover that has a hole one inch by two inches.

It'd be different if a few more companies actually wrote terse licenses, or at least providing a means to print the EULA before agreement. Not that printing is a perfect solution, but at least it gives some way to read the license.

Frankly, I think most of the software companies have shot themselves in the foot, at least with regards to criminal cases : very few juries would believe that the software publisher hadn't deliberately made it difficult, and unlikely, for a potential user to read the license before agreeing.

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