Many years ago I realized that the End User License Agreements (EULA) that we are forced to endure for web sites and software was out of hand. There have been a lot of good points made in the past about them and how they are rarely read. I had written notes about an article but wanted to add something that I had never seen before. What do all those EULAs look like if they are printed? I made a list of all the software on my computer at the time, and a handful of web sites. Ultimately, I never got around to doing it but I mentioned it in discussions with various people.
Recently, Andrea Matwyshyn and I discussed it as well. Some months later, she and some of her students did exactly what I wanted. Pictured below are printouts of some of the many EULAs you have “read”, or at least agreed to. That is a whole lot of legalise you are bound to. Be scared.
2 responses to “Seeing those EULAs in a different context.”
Scary stuff, yes.
Personally, though, I’m far more scared of the way I think and live.
(Also, and presumably unrelated: I love your work.)
I assume it’s printed in 6pt font size, almost no printer margins, doublesided.