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By: The Evangelist

The Evangelist — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:03:58 +0000

I can understand why EULAs (and all licenses) do need a certain degree of complication to avoid loopholes and the like.

However, I would agree that the MS EULA and many others are just way too long and difficult to understand. Do they really think that users actually look at that giant wall of text? It's way too much to have to read just to use your computer. Licensing schemes have become way too convoluted (and I would include the GPLv3 in that assessment).

By: Willem Kossen

Willem Kossen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:18:08 +0000

Thanks for your comment. I hereby encourage everyone who reads this to start complaining about the eula's lack of readability!

By: Arnoud Engelfriet

Arnoud Engelfriet — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:17:46 +0000

Interesting! It has always bugged me that people make EULAs so difficult to read. One pet theory of mine is that people do this because they don't get any feedback from the customer. If you negotiate a contract, the other side will complain if it's incomprehensible. But with a EULA no one says "WTF are you asking me" so nothing changes.

I'm definitely going to take this up for Dutch because Dutch EULAs should be readable as well. Watch that trackback

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