Do you read a software agreement?

[daj]

Folks, can I ask you one question for a blog post I am working on.

I simply want to know if you read software agreements!

Click below to quickly respond. No personal data is collected

thanks

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W6MCVBQ

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[robynfali]

Done mate, and my answer...shamefully, is no, I know i should, but never do

[daj]

thanks.

I will come back later with the results -- it will be interesting to see the results.

[RayProudfoot]

I never read them either. I vaguely remember from years ago one Microsoft agreement ran to over 40 pages of A4 when pasted in Word. That is disgraceful!

[Tonky]

Well..........never...

[nking]

Lifes too short - so nope

[Flying Eye]

No one reads those, well no longer than it takes to figure out which button to press to get it to move on with things instead of wasting your time. (and a waste of time is what lawyers are and do.)

[steve]

Hmm... I'll wait for the outcome of David's survey, but it looks like I won't be making Cumulus available for much longer

[nking]

Hmm... I'll wait for the outcome of David's survey, but it looks like I won't be making Cumulus available for much longer

I should have mentioned that I read yours

[steve]

I should have mentioned that I read yours

Not for a moment did I think otherwise

My licence agreement is really just "Be Reasonable".

[Flying Eye]

Hmm... I'll wait for the outcome of David's survey, but it looks like I won't be making Cumulus available for much longer

Steve, you should not take it to heart, it's just that large companies have degraded the process by having taken things way too far, and if they are being truthful most people just see it as simply another button to push in the install process. That has no reflection on how they see your rights as an author. I guess a better way to do it might be what's really needed here.

For what it is worth, I take the view that these things are written by lawyers, and I am not a lawyer and so I am in all truth not qualified to say I have definitively understood them. Unless you are a lawyer how could one reasonably say otherwise.

It's like when Doctors ask how you are, I am simply not qualified to give any sort of valid answer. Humans do odd things like this, it's part of how and what we are, a slightly but wonderfully odd species!

[steve]

Steve, you should not take it to heart, it's just that large companies have degraded the process by having taken things way too far

I wasn't being entirely serious, and I agree that the multi-page licence agreements full of legalese that you often see, are ridiculous. But I would hope that people do read (and abide by) my short and (I think) very reasonable licence agreement.

[Tonky]

But I would hope that people do read (and abide by) my short and (I think) very reasonable licence agreement.

I did now read it...

[mcrossley]

What is this software agreement of which you speak? In truth I only usually refer to them if I am going to do anything outside the 'norm' like reuse a bit of source code etc.

[uncle_bob]

I never do. But I was curious about Cumulus LA, so I tracked it down (it's in the Help file BTW) and read it. Should I now go back and change my vote?