on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:43:17PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Sherohman writes: > > According to the Microsoft EULA, they could put code into the > > startup routines of any of their software that causes it to break > > into the Pentagon's computers, search out the nuclear launch codes, > > and blow up the planet while displaying the splash screen and it > > wouldn't be Microsoft's fault when the bombs fell. > > The EULA only protects Microsoft against suits brought by people who > have agreed to it for damage done to them by software licensed to them > under it.
...e.g.: third parties harmed by defects in MSFT software aren't bound by it, and might have grounds and basis for a suit. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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