Borland EULA allows them to enter your home?

willy_ph · January 14th, 2002, 07:21 PM

They really have balls to write that into an EULA don't they?

I hear a lawsuit coming on.

FalcomPSX · January 14th, 2002, 07:29 PM

they are welcome in my home, IF they have warrent.

and if they dont have a warrent, they'll have to get past me, and i don't fight fair.

SEALTEAMTHREE · January 14th, 2002, 08:23 PM

Ah, NRA member I suppose?

Terminal23 · January 15th, 2002, 07:39 AM

Oh, how I would love them to try comming to my house."Excuse me sir.Where are your computers?We need to check them.Oh ,ok.There down here in my basement. Watch your step though,its dark and the lighting isn't very good.You go first.BOOM!!!!as there lifeless bodies tumble down the stairs.HAHAHAHA Come on Borland.Come visit me.

Mike · January 15th, 2002, 08:10 AM

You guys just watch it... Your going to have the S.W.A.T team outside your house thinking that your a murderer of goverment workers or something!

January 15th, 2002, 10:55 AM

I am glad to see some people read these EULA's.

Quote:

12. AUDIT. During the term of this License and for one
(1) year thereafter, upon reasonable notice and during
normal business hours, Borland or its outside auditors will
have the right to enter your premises and access your
records and computer systems to verify that you have paid
to Borland the correct amounts owed under this License
and determine whether the Products are being used in
accordance with the terms of this License. You will
provide reasonable assistance to Borland in connection
with this provision. You agree to pay the cost of the audit
if any underpayments during the period covered by the
audit amount to more than five percent (5%) of the fees
actually owed for that period.

14.4 No Jury Trials; No Joinder. Each party hereby
irrevocably waives its right to a jury trial in any legal
action, suit or proceeding between the parties arising out
of or relating to this License. A copy this License may be
filed with the court as written consent by both parties to a
bench trial. You agree that any dispute you may have
against Borland cannot be joined with any dispute of any
other person or entity in a lawsuit, arbitration or any other
proceeding, or resolved on a classwide basis.

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/369/

If you accepted the EULA then it looks like they can come check if they want.

storm2k · January 15th, 2002, 11:20 AM

this reminds me a lot of when yahoo tried to modify the geocities tos back in 1999 to say that they owned everything you uploaded onto their servers and could rebroadcast it in any way they wanted without your permission. man did THAT go away quickly after it was discovered.

and you people always thought microsoft played dirty...

osprey4 · January 15th, 2002, 01:51 PM

Please don't tell my wife. She'll start cleaning the house!! "Hey, it says here that they want to come over and audit what's on our computer!" "Ohmigod!! OK, no one uses the downstairs bathroom! Put those toys away! Dust that computer desk!"

Jn

Knothead · January 15th, 2002, 04:17 PM

Incredible. Abolutely Incredible.

Gee, maybe they should just do it the MS way, no need to pay to have 'Auditors' shuffling all over the countryside, they just read the contents of your computer, and then send a federal Marshall to haul you away!

(Sorry for the sarcasm.)

I just think it's gone too far when private corporations can enter your home for their own self-interest. Seems to me that if you've created a company that cannot survive without altering basic Constitutional freedoms, well, maybe your company doesn't deserve to EXIST!

again!

Oh, yeah, and I'm NRA, and proud of it, man!