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The idea is like your example, to point out that just putting something in a long EULA that they know no one reads doesn’t make it okay or enforceable. Suffice it to say that it starts with “Human” and ends with “iPad,” if you really want to look it up. There was a South Park episode that lampooned this topic, with a particularly over-the-top example of “you agreed to this when you accepted the EULA,” which is so, erm, toilet-humorish that I don’t even want to post the episode title here, let alone a more detailed synopsis.

Although there’s enough places where there’s no reasonable alternatives, given the choice between buying Adobe and buying a competing product, I would choose the competing product 6 times out of 5. And even if they lose, since it’s not a court ruling, there’s no precedent that can be used in subsequent disputes.Īlthough I detest doing business with Microsoft and their arcane licensing methodologies, I will take them every day over Adobe. They may not win every arbitration case, but they don’t have to. The only way I can see this ever changing is if somebody manages to convince a court that terms are unconscionable, but Adobe’s lawyers are pretty adept at keeping them out of any legal process that they don’t control. Prior payment for software is irrelevant to them. My occasional experience with Adobe is that they’re pretty active on invoking the weasel clause to change terms that better suit their preferences at the moment. Another commonly-included item is what I call the “weasel clause”, that allows the offerer to change terms of the contract: unlaterally, immediately, irrevocably, and without prior notice or negotiation. It’s UCC that allows for boilerplate contracts that are legally binding with “take it or leave it” terms, where there’s no capacity of negotiation, and where the offers, as presented, entirely favor the offerer, including, as described here, requirements of dispute resolution through arbitration. The underlying issue is that most EULA are contracts that are conducted under the parameters of Universal Commercial Code, or UCC. I had a similar issue several years ago, although I don’t remember the detail.

I have found Adobe’s licensing methodologies to be more abusive than any others that I’ve seen.

Adobe acrobat xi pro serial number revoked