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January 28, 2005

EULA's gone crazy

Software licensing agreement gone overboard:

HIGH RISK ACTIVITIES. The Software is not fault-tolerant and is not designed, manufactured or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems, in which the failure of the Software could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.

Accordingly, Licensor and its suppliers specifically disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for High Risk Activities.

Sigh.

This, by the way, is for a demo version of an real estate agency software app for managing properties and customer data. I have the feeling this EULA was written explicitly for a version promoted by one of SA's Sunday papers. A case of old media lawyers applying a generic catch all to all things digital. Hope the software company that wrote the app didn't have to pay for this EULA.

Posted by sdehaast at January 28, 2005 10:51 PM Posted to wtf?