Philywebrider opened this issue on Aug 29, 2002 ยท 61 posts
CyberStretch posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 1:12 PM
Jack, Thanks for the acknowledgement/compliment. I was beginning to wonder if I had become "hyper-critical" in my, er, "old age". Although I am not a lawyer either, I have been involved at several places ensuring that our licensing was "legal" and attempting to stop illegal software, etc, from company systems. Therefore, I have become exposed, over time, to a number of different contracts and legal documents and one can very easily spot something that appears not to have been written by a legal-minded professional. (Think legalese, ie incomprehensible words you need a dictionary for, and highly repetitive/cross-referenced wording; among many other "distinctions".) Also, I am definitely biased to consumer vs corporate advocacy, and I openly acknowledge that. I will "defend to the death" consumer rights because, quite frankly, corporations have shown a severe and growing disregard for their source of income (consumers) and frequently corporations, or their officials/employees, prove to be their biggest liability; not the consumers or even the non-consumers. The once famous adage, "The Customer is Always Right!", now seems transformed into "The Customer is Never Right!!!". Hopefully, there is a bastion of companies, like CL and others, that will prove once again that by treating customers as their top priority they can overcome even the "significant" losses due to illegal activity.