Office applications Toolkit
Story: Software vendors forcing unfair licences on users
Its actually a lot more serious than the article portrays
The reality is that the licence (EULA) keeps altering, when significant changes/updates/patches are installed and the end users at the desktop level end up being your "commercial acceptors", with often no legal qualifications or understanding of what they are accepting, on behalf of the organisation. The folks at PCProfile.com have been keeping an eye on EULAs for years and have seen this as an ever increasing trend, with some worrying "after market" inclusions such as the ability to audit PCs for licence compliance being slipped under the radar along with telemetry data flowing back after updates etc. Audit conditions are in more EULAs than people would care to admit.
It's time the EULA's (licenses) were dumbed down into plain simple language that was easy to read and understand.
All the license really needs to say is that its a one licence per PC approach and that reverse engineering of the code etc is not permitted. Backup copies are allowed, for the purposes of system recovery and all the other wordage is absolute and utter dross.
In this case the license can shrink to 1 page.
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