Ever read a license agreement ?

MooseJam

Yea this probably isn't the place for this but you are all on pc's so what the hell, just wondering how many of you have ever read a license agreement, I've installed hundreds of programs by this stage and never even considered reading one, I just tick that little box, some people say you'd be shocked if you read them that you are infact selling your soul and stuff like that :eek:

Peared

Never in all my born years.

God imagine being that bored/interested/anal.

Nope.

Overheal

Depends on how important the piece of software is. I'll usually jump to important sections. For example, using a devolopers kit its smart to roll over things dealing with Intellectual Property, just for a start. for 99% of software though, pfft.

For instance if you used some developers kits (like map editors for example) the EULA advises you don't 'own' anything you make with it and anyone is free to use/modify the levels/maps that you create. Good example from my youth was the Starcraft Map Editor.

armour87

I anticiapte a barrage of no's

Kimbot

I have read one or two in my time........ that wasted well too much time for me.

Thought I was gonna find some secret in them

useful_contacts

example?;)

GhostInTheRuins

Nope

Mena

I'm the only one who's voted yes so far?

truecrippler

License Agreement? bleh I choose to ignore them.

Atari Jaguar tbh.

thelordofcheese

The windows vista one is purest Evil incarnate

So yeah, i'd take a look over anything i wanted to use for the long term, like an operating system or a IDE, anyone who doesn't has no right to bitch when they get screwed over by it.

The Real B-man

armour87 wrote: »

I anticiapte a barrage of no's

Ditto

Dord

One or two, it depends how important the software was.

Thrill

Nah, couldn't be bothered really.

bluemachaveli

Nope, way too much effort

I have very quickly browsed through one or two!

Mikel Jr.

if only ticking a box could have been substituted for reading a long page of boring content in all forms of life

I might have made it through college.

challengemaster

I've read a few..

swingking

I once installed a piece of software and when it came to the usual licence agreement, as you'd expect I clicked "I Agree"

Suddenly this message comes up with the following

"You managed to read the licence agreement in 0.2394 seconds!! You must be a genius"

Capt'n Midnight

oh yeah :mad:
Faust would have been screwed if he'd signed one

Steve

Yes but only because I had to write several myself.

I've often wondered how far you could go - is claiming the rights to the users virgin bride out of the question?
What if they click yes and therefore agree to a hidden clause that transfers ownership of their house to me?

:pac::pac:

Geff

God no.

phantom_lord

tl;dr

JavaBear

Of course

I hate the ones where you have to scroll through the entire thing before they'll allow you to click the "I Agree" button. And some of those are long mofos.

ScumLord

I've tried reading one or two but didn't have the patience for it.

As far as I'm concerned I don't read em' or understand em' and the writers of it know it won't be understood by most and ignored. So I don't see how they mean anything at all. I never knew what I was agreeing too, all I did was press a button how can I be held legally responsible?

4Xcut

@above, because you claim to agree with them by clicking the box. That's how you can be held legally responsible.

ScumLord

But no ones ever made clear what the agreement is.

Naos

Eh, I'm pretty sure the agreement is covered in the License Agreement you weren't bother to read...

ScumLord

But I wouldn't understand it if I did read it.

rainbow kirby

Only if I have nothing better to do.

Sherifu

I think I read one once out of curiosity. May have been a dream though.

Parsley

In a similar vein, I'd bet there are many people here who don't read polls and just click Atari Jaguar.