[LINK] Firefly

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Linkers,

Credit where it's due; Freshtel has contacted me about this, and 
promises to move the Firefly T&Cs to where they can be viewed 
independently of download or registration. Ten out of ten to have 
someone paying attention!

RC

rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:

> Taking this stuff a bit more seriously, and since I may want overseas 
> dial anyhow to conduct interviews, I'm going to run up a VoIP client 
> and try and get it functioning ...
>
> My first stop, since it was on my mind from last week's discussion, 
> was Firefly; however, it's just excluded itself for one of the most 
> basic issues of software bad manners that anyone can fall for.
>
> The T&Cs document comes with the client software, and is only made 
> visible during installation. And you can only install the software by 
> filling out the "get your number" information during download. I know 
> that the enforceability of click-wrap is debateable anyway; but people 
> really should be able to look over the T&Cs before they've handed over 
> information to a provider.
>
> Oh well, back to researching the choice of software ...
>
> RC
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