Re:'Windows 10 destroyed our data' Microsoft taken to US court
by Silhouette on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:31PM
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So what would you say if a company violated the GPL?
I don't know the law where this particular action is being brought, but speaking generally, it's not unusual for different safeguards to apply for private citizens and for businesses. For better or worse, the situation where I am tends to heavily favour the private citizen when it comes to standard form contracts or other similar agreements with businesses, while businesses (no matter their size) are basically assumed to know what they're doing so it's their own fault if they agree to something they shouldn't.
It's not a great analogy anyway, for the reasons others have already explained.
I don't know the law where this particular action is being brought, but speaking generally, it's not unusual for different safeguards to apply for private citizens and for businesses. For better or worse, the situation where I am tends to heavily favour the private citizen when it comes to standard form contracts or other similar agreements with businesses, while businesses (no matter their size) are basically assumed to know what they're doing so it's their own fault if they agree to something they shouldn't.
It's not a great analogy anyway, for the reasons others have already explained.