David Schwartz wrote:
To the extent that there is no affirmative act of agreement to the EULA, Microsoft will have a hard time enforcing it. I have seen laptops that, on first customer boot, require you to accept a Microsoft EULA. I think Microsoft would have hard time enforcing their EULA if there was no positive act of assent to it.
In Germany even the click on "I agree" has no legal consequences when the user was not able to read the EULA *before* the purchase: If the EULA is not printed on the outside of the cardboard box (or the user can read the EULA in any other way before the purchase), the EULA is not applicable. And when the installation process completes only when you click on the "I agree" button, then you can do this without legal consequences, your rights to use the software are then determined by german copyright law, not by the EULA.
Ciao, Richard -- Dr. Richard W. Könning Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]