Re: Language ranking

[Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

On 04/04/14 18:42, Shark8 wrote:

> Heck, there's already *criminal* law that covers a vast majority of these: fraud.


The big corps of today are actively and openly (e.g. Google)
campaigning to undermine what currently is The Law ("users don't
care", they say). They use well known techniques of obfuscating
legal matters, of playing them down.

And they complicate access. E.g., URLs are not linked from legal
text; copy&paste is disabled for text introducing the legally
important matter that is supposed to be establishing a contract;
references that give meaning to context are technically dangling.
Like, "for more on $xyz$, see URL (see blah-blah)".

Practically no end user can handle these supposedly binding
contracts without the assistance of at least one competent lawyer.

And, practically no software billionaire can afford bringing
his software to the required known good state: it might ruin
his business.

If you think about the non-software market, the kind of legal
mess exhibited by ubiquitous software licenses is normally taken
as a sign of misbehavior, if not fraud, since you mentioned the word.

For contrast, a case in question is whether or not a customer
may resell a product he once bought and that he no longer uses...