[LINK] Microsoft EULA

[Gordon Keith]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:04, Malcolm Miles wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:55:15 +1000, you wrote:
> >"Windows' newest patches -- Service Pack 1 for Windows XP
> >and SP3 for Windows 2000 -- contain new license language that
> >gives Microsoft the right to silently revise your operating system."
> >
> >(http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/08/26/020826opwinman.xm
> >l)
> >
> >This upsets many companies whose PCs can't be allowed to morph
> >at will.
>
> Any company worth its salt will turn off auto-update on its PCs.

Actually the license says nothing about auto-update. The license grants 
microsoft the right to update your operating system at their 
discretion.

Turning off auto-update just disables one possible vector for microsoft 
to exercise the rights you have granted. If it was effective then it 
could be argued that you are violating the license agreement.

Regards
Gordon

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Gordon Keith
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Marine Acoustics
CSIRO Marine Research
http://www.marine.csiro.au

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We too, then, ought to give our lives for our brothers!
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