From: <pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca>
As a side note, it seems that a corporation would actually have to demonstrate that I had seen and agreed to the thing and clicked acceptance. Prior to that point, I could reverse engineer, since there is no statement that I cannot reverse engineer agreed to. So what would happen if I reverse engineered the installation so that the agreement that was display stated that I could do what I liked with the software? Ok, so there would be no mutual intent, but on the other hand, there would also be no agreement on the click-through agreement either.
I have an application that replaces the caption on the "I agree" button to your liking; I wrote it exactly because of this reasoning. http://picosoft.freeservers.com/NoLicense.htm Of course, it's a stupid little program, I'm sure anyone can come up with something better in no time... BTW, for any lawyers around here - shouldn't the mere existence of this program be enough to blow up the idea that you agreed to the click-through stuff? Mark