That is the usual practice when you buy something that comes with a long contract. In fact, the only thing I ever bought that came with a contract that long was a flat. And they did, in fact, read out the entire thing to me.
USUALLY, when I buy something there is no contract involved other than the implicit contract.
Why Apple and Microsoft think that buying software should be more like buying a house than buying a book, I don't know. To me software seems more like a book than like a house.
That's basically what other vendors that sell goods that come with complicated contracts do, yes.
That is true also.
It irks me too, that's why I am so offended by software companies who have decided to make it so. I never said that software must come with long contracts to read and sign. That was Microsoft's (and other companies') idea.
I find it appropriate for a house, not appropriate for books (where it isn't done) and software (where for some reason there is a long contract involved).
If it was up to me, this matter would be easy.
If you become a US citizen, you do swear an oath on the constitution, which is, I guess, the equivalent of "signing" it. (For social compacts only the author(s) sign(s) it, everybody else swears oaths.)
If you are born a US citizen, the constitution is not binding to you, because you have not signed it, and you are free to leave the area the constitution claims as its area of legitimacy.
If you stay, the constitution is your law.
A EULA, on the other hand, is a contract, not a constitution or law enacted under the constitution. And I don't see why a EULA should be regarded as "law" like the US constitution rather than like a contract.
