Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft trying it on again...

date posted 10th January 2005 11:41

you've got to laugh at the dilemma here...

http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/07.html#a200

snip from boing boing...

The license agreement on DirectRevenue's website states that those who
have been inflicted with it "agree that you will not initiate, permit,
authorize or assist any third party or application to remove the
Software from your computer, or disrupt its operation or the operation
of any other user." DirectRevenue's EULA also claims the right to
reinstall itself if any third party software removes it. (Among the
myriad spyware-related lawsuits going on, by the way, DirectRevenue is
being sued by fellow adware vendor Avenue Media over the DirectRevenue
software's penchant for deleting other spyware from users' systems.)

So it seemed to me that this poses something of a quandary for
Microsoft. After all, the software EULA as we know it today is basically
a Microsoft invention, and no other company has been as big a supporter
of UCITA and other legal efforts to make sneakwrap licenses completely
binding. So Microsoft isn't going to want to go around violating any
other company's EULA, not even those of companies of whom they might not
completely approve



Derek.




Damon Birch wrote:

>Has anyone else tried the MS Anti-Spyware software?
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>... some one else wrote...
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4104129.stm
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>People might find this interesting.
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