Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by maaaats on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:00AM
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Good things EULAs are not enforceable in my country. No one ever reads them.
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Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by tzs on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:04AM
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Which country?
Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by maaaats on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:18AM
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Norway. We have strong consumer protection rights that you cannot sign away. Also laws about unreasonable contracts.
Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by ptaipale on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:22AM
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However, strong consumer protection rights generally only protect consumers. Professionals writing commercial software and working for a company are not consumers.
(At least this is how it works at the neighbour, Finland, and I think it is the same most everywhere).
Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by fatso83 on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:40AM
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You are probably on to something. Most Norwegians are so used to being protected as consumers so a lot of the time they are taken by surprise when acting as professionals.
Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by maaaats on Friday October 27, 2017 @04:14AM
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True, always funny when someone skimps on taxes by buying a computer for private use as "a professional", and then gets angry when it wont get fixed for free.
But with that said, I think most stuff in an EULA wouldn't be enforceable even in a professional context. And the worst thing to happen when breaking an EULA would probably you lose your right to use the product, not whatever they wrote in the EULA.
Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by Semaphor on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:13AM
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Germany is an example.
Well, not completely. a) EULAs you are only shown on install (for paid software) have absolutely no meaning here. b) Otherwise, they count as T&Cs which are regulated and for example can't have any surprising clauses (which this probably would be)
Re:Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from own...
by pjmlp on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:51AM
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At least all European countries, for example.
EULAs are only valid if you get to read them before paying for the product, otherwise it would be like getting a contract without having signed it.