Posted by Harlan Messinger on 09/10/06 13:49

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Adam Smith <adamsmith@econ.com> scripsit:
>
>> Many program & sites package their EULA's in neat dialog boxes, w/ I
>> Agree, Do Not Agree Radio buttons. Could someone say how this is done?
>
> There's nothing neat in such dialog boxes. They exist just to please
> lawyers that imagine that the dialogs have a legal meaning and work with
> such issues since they cannot find neither a more profitable nor a more
> decent job.

What makes you think they don't have a legal meaning, and why do you
seem so disdainful about people placing conditions on the use of their
property?

> If you want to know how to piss off your visitors with such boxes on web
> pages, just look at the source code.

Do you get pissed off that a landlord wants you to agree to some
conditions before allowing you to live in a house he owns?

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