On May 11, 2008, at 12:52 PM, John Stalberg wrote:
They define: Mac OS X Server software => Mac OS X Server Software.
So the obvious follow-up is, why, unless they assume that no one
really tries to understand what the EULA means (or they are
deliberately playing with our heads), would they create a vacuous,
meaningless, illogical, and stupid definition?
They probably want the capital S in "Software" to syntacticly show
were it should be treated as a logical unit of text. The former is
together with the other capitalized words, ie "Mac OS X Server".
In the context of this EULA "Mac OS X Server Software" is a logical
unit and it could benefit from being explicitly well defined to
syntacticly stick out from the rest of the text. The definition is
needed since it is would otherwise not be correct written English. The
correct would be to use "Mac OS X Server software" but as I said
before, there could be benefits in writing it as Mac OS X Server
Software instead.
This is not something I have checked to be true! To get to know if my
explanation is true or not, you would have to ask the writers of the
EULA. I also want to mention that English is a second language for me,
which I have learned from school. I might have used some examples of
poor written english myself, without knowing it. I always try to write
correct, but sometimes it is not enough I'm afraid. However, the idea
here is the same regardless of my lack of language skills.
John Stalberg
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