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unless the last game you picked up with a copy of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney lawyer jargon or legalese is probably the last thing on your mind when you're excitedly ripping open the box of a new piece of software but Curb Your Enthusiasm friends because nearly every piece of software these days is going to come with the infamous and user license agreement or EULA we've all clicked agree to these things without reading all 50 pages or even sometimes a single sentence so why the heck are they included when we all know that hardly anyone reads them what is the point well fundamentally a EULA is just a type of contract which have been around since time immemorial but unlike most agreements that involve some kind of two-way negotiation EULA's are pretty much just a list of stuff you're not allowed to do and while the first EULA's which started popping up in the 1980s were intended to mostly stop unauthorized copying since then they've grown to be completely unwieldly like a a 34 layer nacho dip or something to get to the salsa you're going to end up with cheese on your fingers every time hold on a second Linus I don't agree to their terms I just want to use the software I came for it's mine well not exactly when you buy a copy of a piece of software you are not actually paying for the software you're only paying for a license to use it since the publisher wants to retain the rights to actually do stuff to the code so what can't you do then most EULA's will forbid you from tinkering with or reverse engineering the software since the publishers don't want people adding enhancements and features for free that they could make money off of later software developers also obviously don't want to get sued so you'll see a disclaimer of warranty which means that you agree that if the software messes something up with your computer or worse you're limited to whatever the publisher will give you which is usually phone and web support or best-case scenario refund and some EULA's even say stuff like that you can't criticize the software publicly if you don't like it that's BS Linus why do they get to make all the rules anyway do I get any say in any of this sort of at least in the u.s. there are numerous precedents for yulik losses ending up being unenforceable if they're really unfair to the consumer and generally speaking there also needs to be some sort of assent from the customer for the EULA to actually count for example one American Court case involving Netscape held that sticking Terms of Service in an inconspicuous location at the bottom of a page did give a user enough chance to agree but being forced to look at a you love before clicking next or removing the plastic wrap from the software a box...