Comment Foul hardware manufacturers (Score 1) 666
If i was to be building computers and then sell them to the general public i would certainly want to help them out if they was to get in any kind of trouble.
If Gateway now have had their ways to look at customers rights changed lately, i believe it is up to them to scrutinice their own EULA's and maybe change or remove some of the texts. One reason to why companies today tend to not even concider helping their customers are because they are so big a business that there are no thoughts left to their customers, apart from building the biggest and fastest machines and making great commersials. And let's not forget the profits growing through the roof, and even then it's not enough.
If the machinery tend to crash, or in this case, not even start up correctly the first time you hit the switch, they want nothing with it to do. There's so many people in the world that they don't have to care if they lose a copule of customers because of faulty machinery.
Theres not even any kind of guaranties that the machinery will work, and because of those EULA's the company can clear their back of any guilt to what may happen if you decide to use their machinery. If you happen to get blind because of the monitor exploding, get electricuted because of faulty wiring, or drop the package on your feet because they are to heavy, it's not the companys fault.
But then there's one question left. Should the EULA's even be regarded as legal documents?
I don't think so, because they are documents made up by well payed layers (mostly anyway) who get their salary from the company, and they are not in any way tested against national or international law before beeing applied to the customer. There's not even guarateed that theres lawyers writing the texts. I have seen examples of such texts so badly writteh that my dog could do a better job.
If Gateway now have had their ways to look at customers rights changed lately, i believe it is up to them to scrutinice their own EULA's and maybe change or remove some of the texts. One reason to why companies today tend to not even concider helping their customers are because they are so big a business that there are no thoughts left to their customers, apart from building the biggest and fastest machines and making great commersials. And let's not forget the profits growing through the roof, and even then it's not enough.
If the machinery tend to crash, or in this case, not even start up correctly the first time you hit the switch, they want nothing with it to do. There's so many people in the world that they don't have to care if they lose a copule of customers because of faulty machinery.
Theres not even any kind of guaranties that the machinery will work, and because of those EULA's the company can clear their back of any guilt to what may happen if you decide to use their machinery. If you happen to get blind because of the monitor exploding, get electricuted because of faulty wiring, or drop the package on your feet because they are to heavy, it's not the companys fault.
But then there's one question left. Should the EULA's even be regarded as legal documents?
I don't think so, because they are documents made up by well payed layers (mostly anyway) who get their salary from the company, and they are not in any way tested against national or international law before beeing applied to the customer. There's not even guarateed that theres lawyers writing the texts. I have seen examples of such texts so badly writteh that my dog could do a better job.
