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by Anonymous User on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 05:58:05 AM PDT

Someone should deliberately and flagrantly violate this MS EULA, advertise the fact widely, and when they get sued, argue that MS EULAs are unenforceable contracts of adhesion. A blatantly unfair EULA in a de-facto monopoly's product will be a relatively easy case and opens the way to invalidating more and more onerous EULAs.

If need be, the suit could even be brought proactively by the consumer -- surely attempting to shove a very one-sided contract of adhesion down someone's throat constitites grounds for some kind of legal action in itself?

Of course, we need a reasonably well-to-do philanthropic volunteer...

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