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Re: Do you still pay for software?
de Franklin 04/15/2006 12:40
On 14 Apr 2006, Klaatu<klaatu@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:26:00 GMT, Whirled Peas posted to
> alt.comp.freeware:
>
>> For me one of the greatest merits of freeware, particularly
>> FOSS is choice. I can choose what program to use and how to use
>> it. I am not bound by the terms of the EULA and can (with open
>> source software), if I have the skill, modify it to work the
>> way I want it to work.
>
> While I use a fair amount of FOSS myself, for the commercial
> software I use I don't consider myself to be bound by anything
> in any EULA.
PMFJI.
I can honestly say I have never ever read as much as a single EULA
except for the supremely trivial sort of statement which give me a
choice of two buttons. One button says I agree to everything the
developer wants to insist on and the other says cancel.
I just assume every EULA is full of severely onerous and horribly
restrictive terms saying things like I must die a terrible death
if I ever think about the author in an unpleasant way. All that
sort of thing.