[werrett]

You guys are tripping. EULAs have had anti-competition, anti-benchmarking, anti-reverse engineering and anti-disparagement clauses since the late 90s.

These unknown companies called Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Apple, Adobe, … et al have all had these controversies at various points.

[wodenokoto]

Yeah, if I remember correctly iTunes had a clause it couldn’t be used for nuclear development.

Not sure what Apple lawyers were imagining but I guess barring Irani scientist from syncing their iPods with uranium refiner schematics set back their programme for decades.

[zorked]

I think Apple had it in all their software. It's a good stance and easy to ridicule by taking iTunes as an example.

[johnisgood]

That is hilarious if true.

[rendx]

Glad to live in a sane jurisdiction, where provisions made available only after purchase and those that go against typical customer expectations are simply invalid, so I never had to care about EULAs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Eur...

[heavyset_go]

I am not a fan of Apple or Oracle, but you are not contractually prevented from competing with them if you use Macs or Oracle Cloud to build software.

I wouldn't suggest building on Oracle's property as you drink its milkshake, but the ToS and EULAs don't restrict competition.

[JamesBarney]

Oracle licenses 100% restrict reverse engineering it's product to build a competing once, which is probably the closest to what these AI giants are trying to restrict.