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Laws reflect attitudes, supporting unjust laws with your opinion sustains them. So yes, my issue is with your attitude.

EDIT: Since you've edited your comment to elaborate I'll respond in kind:

If by default I have the legal right to reverse engineer your software, and you can strip this from me with a 'contract' that amounts to a checkbox with text that nobody reads and therefore has no marginal cost to add enforceable boilerplate to, that is a basic perversion of the intent of contract law. Contract laws start from the premise that a contract should protect both parties. One sided contracts are in general antithetical to the goals of contract law:

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-an-un...

A boilerplate click through disclaimer should not be able to prevent me from taking actions that the vendor finds inconvenient but are otherwise legal and nonviolent.

EDIT 2: To clarify, the portion cited as an "edit" above:

"EDIT: I don't believe the law to be unjust as to how it relates to copyright, code ownership, and licensing. We've reached an impasse. "

Was not the full extent of editing of the parent comment, which had significant text added between me replying and its present state.




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