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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (13657)	10/24/1997 6:21:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>Ever read a shrink-wrap license Norm? Yes, I have and I have also been told that you cannot sign away your rights. Yes, the license agreements all shed responsibility for software products. This also gives the software world a free-license to distribute poorly-written/tested software (although at a reasonable cost.). <<< Two things about this: 1. You don't sign a shrink wrap license. They are generally considered unenforceable, and in point of fact are an industry joke. Where people run into the law with software it is normally because they have blatantly stolen it or where they have actually signed something. BTW, some rights can be signed away, but you can always litigate if you have enough money. 2. We had a proposed law come up before the California legislature a few years ago that would have made most of the normal warrentee provisions apply to software (Can't state it does something it patently does not do, for instance. Must have close approximations to the features it is supposed to have. Is supposed to work most of the time. ...) The software industry spent millions to squish this. The freshman legislator (I forget who she was) presenting the bill lost heart and backed off. The bill was killed. That is the reason software is sometimes so bad. Money and lawyers and media spin control are applied to politicians, with the regular result. Chaz