Comments on: eulas, oh my! http://shutdownnow.com/2009/03/21/eulas-oh-my Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:49:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dough http://shutdownnow.com/2009/03/21/eulas-oh-my/comment-page-1#comment-3583 Dough Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:29:05 +0000 http://shutdownnow.com/?p=101#comment-3583 Bah, I just found out the frog analogy is useless: www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog. But it still doesn't change how many IP advocates are trying to make it possible to own ideas forever. They've already convinced the general public that "if I made it, I own it, it's mine!" Bah, I just found out the frog analogy is useless: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog. But it still doesn’t change how many IP advocates are trying to make it possible to own ideas forever. They’ve already convinced the general public that “if I made it, I own it, it’s mine!”

]]> By: Jeff Grandinetti http://shutdownnow.com/2009/03/21/eulas-oh-my/comment-page-1#comment-3446 Jeff Grandinetti Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:26:45 +0000 http://shutdownnow.com/?p=101#comment-3446 I wonder if sunkist would want their oranges returned after your body has 'processed' them ;D I wonder if sunkist would want their oranges returned after your body has ‘processed’ them ;D

]]> By: Dough http://shutdownnow.com/2009/03/21/eulas-oh-my/comment-page-1#comment-142 Dough Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:11:41 +0000 http://shutdownnow.com/?p=101#comment-142 I'm really hoping that people are actually smarter than the frogs from the frog analogy: If you place a frog in a pot of hot water, it will immediately hop out. But if you place a frog in a pot of comfortable water, then slowly increase the temperature, it will stay in the water until it's dead. That is, even though our consumer/end user rights are slowly being taken away, hopefully it doesn't get bad enough before we still have the ability to take them back. I just hope that consumers eventually wise up and start using their dollars to support non-EULA alternatives when possible; or, at the very least, EULAs without unconscionable terms. I'll post an entry on an idea I've got later. I’m really hoping that people are actually smarter than the frogs from the frog analogy:

If you place a frog in a pot of hot water, it will immediately hop out. But if you place a frog in a pot of comfortable water, then slowly increase the temperature, it will stay in the water until it’s dead.

That is, even though our consumer/end user rights are slowly being taken away, hopefully it doesn’t get bad enough before we still have the ability to take them back. I just hope that consumers eventually wise up and start using their dollars to support non-EULA alternatives when possible; or, at the very least, EULAs without unconscionable terms. I’ll post an entry on an idea I’ve got later.

]]> By: Jared http://shutdownnow.com/2009/03/21/eulas-oh-my/comment-page-1#comment-141 Jared Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:28:32 +0000 http://shutdownnow.com/?p=101#comment-141 ...it's only a matter of time until your Sunkist nightmares are true. (: …it’s only a matter of time until your Sunkist nightmares are true. (:

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