Posted by Adam Smith on 09/10/06 17:29

Harlan Messinger wrote:
> 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?

Well, I regarded that as coming from an immature, naive source. I am
surprised that I haven't received any directions to the question though,
or ahve I posted to the wrong forum (It so hard to tell).

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