Outrageous EULA Terms
- by Scott Whigham on December 11, 2008 8:14 AMI was intrigued by the article's headline: "The $2 million Penalty Clause". I didn't know what it was about but the headline was catchy enough. So I read it. And here's the gist of it: there's this company (http://www.schoolcheckin.com/) that has a line in the EULA (end user licensing agreement) that basically says that if you download their evaluation copy and later choose to write your own in-house version, you owe them $2,000,000 USD and you have to give them the rights to the software you wrote.
What?!?!
Anyway - great article, ridiculous story: http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/12/tom_offers_us_t.html
I laughed at one of the comments on ycombinator today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=393983
My favorite was from "jjs": "it's cheaper to fight it in court than to settle! :)"