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Old July 2nd 14, 10:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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In message , Alias
writes:
Andy Burns wrote:
Alias wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

If that's really true, it would fall foul of the UK's "Unfair contract
terms" legislation.

If you open the package, you cannot get a refund. And to see the EULA,
you need to open the package unless in the UK, the EULA is on the
outside of the package.


The outside of my Win7 Ultimate box (Retail not OEM) says

"You must accept the enclosed license terms before you can use this
software. To read the license terms go to www.microsoft.com/useterms"



I guess they are finally waking up to the problem but what if you don't
have Internet access? Or you won't have it until Windows is installed?

Hmm. The essence of the unfair contract terms legislation is that any
term which you cannot be aware of before the contract is in place is
deemed invalid. (IANAL by the way!) But they could probably claim that
you were aware of the requirement to check the net, and going ahead
anyway without doing so (by using someone else's access) was a breach.
It probably needs a test case to try it out; AFAI am aware, there hasn't
been one, but I don't follow such things closely.
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