Companies and individuals play by different rules.
When a big company purchases software a team of people from both parties (whose entire job and career are based on doing this) negotiate with each other to decide exactly who is liable for what and to what degree.
When you purchase software you agree to let the company fuck you over at their leisure because you literally do not have enough hours in the day to even read everything you agree to, let alone understand it, let alone argue with it. And even if you did you don’t have enough bargaining power to make a large company care.
In Australia, the law is that EULAs are mostly irrelevant. However, most people do not know this. My friend the lawyer cheerfully told me this a while ago, and said not to tell anyone because he was winning a lot of cases due to this.
I think the bugger’s had it too easy for too long, so there’s the secret! </s>
As if the Eulas don’t make it all arbitration?
What software company allows liability for mistakes in a EULA?
Most do, but limited to the amount of the contract.
Companies and individuals play by different rules.
When a big company purchases software a team of people from both parties (whose entire job and career are based on doing this) negotiate with each other to decide exactly who is liable for what and to what degree.
When you purchase software you agree to let the company fuck you over at their leisure because you literally do not have enough hours in the day to even read everything you agree to, let alone understand it, let alone argue with it. And even if you did you don’t have enough bargaining power to make a large company care.
In Australia, the law is that EULAs are mostly irrelevant. However, most people do not know this. My friend the lawyer cheerfully told me this a while ago, and said not to tell anyone because he was winning a lot of cases due to this.
I think the bugger’s had it too easy for too long, so there’s the secret! </s>