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>>I know that there are some software installations that make you click a
>>checkbox or press a certain key before you can click Next on the license
>>agreement page. I think the Windows installation does this. During an
>>install, a user's normal course of action is to just keep clicking Next
>>until the files start copying. In these cases, you have to actually be aware
>>that you are on the license agreement page. Of course, no one can MAKE you
>>read it, but at least you know that you were responsible for agreeing to the
>>terms.
Last year, I came across a piece of software with a nice twist on
the license agreement. If you clicked to move on in less than
thirty seconds, a dialogue box popped up, asking "So Soon?"
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Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com | Tel: 604.421.7189
"Soon you'll achieve the stability you strive for,
In the only way that it's granted:
In a place among the fossils of our time."
-Jefferson Airplane (after John Wyndham)
