I would like to say that this article demonstrates the absurity toward which our copyright and patent regime is pushing us, but there are many (including this company, obviously) who hail the new world order. Where pricing and quality have failed to produce customer loyalty, licensing agreements and the weight of law will surely succeed! What bothers me most is that it's so one-sided: any company can attach an end user license agreement (EULA) to its product, but I have no means of doing the same with the money I pay or the work I perform on my job. How nice it would be to attach to my money or my work a certain number of use conditions: "these funds are not to be used for the purchase of non-open software or services" or "this work is not to be used in non-democratic nations." Why not? Let's use EULAs to advance the cause of social justice, rather than as a shortcut to unearned profits.
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