A recent study discovered that if everyone in America read the End User License 
Agreement of every program that they installed, then over $300 billion dollars would be lost in productivity. This would be a terrible lost, but you should not install a program without reading the license agreement first because you may not like everything that you have agree to. To solve this dilemma, a group called JavaCool Software made a program called EULAlyzer.
With EULAlyzer, you can copy and paste the EULA of a program into the main menu of the program, then click analyze. After a second, you will get a list suspicious wording that is in the EULA. This makes it really easy to know whether or not you should agree and install the software, or fine a better equivalent.
You can get EULAlyzer and other great free software at JavaCool Software.
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I wonder what happens if you have EULAlyzer analyze its own EULA.
"I wonder what happens if you have EULAlyzer analyze its own EULA."
Nothing much happens. There's the typical "Third Party" flags but nothing else. You can see a screen shot of it in the CaseyTech photostream at Flickr, or by clicking this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caseytech/3002132115/
Nice. Great time saver! My uncle's a lawyer and likes to read all the gory details, I wonder what he'll say about this.
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