alien said,

May 4, 2007 @ 9:43 am

I’ve read RedSwoosh EULA (http://www.akamai.com/html/redswoosh/enduser_license_agreement.html) and found some suspicious things:

The Software is part of an integrated content delivery and communications system for efficiently disseminating software, images, text, video, music and other digital information across the Internet. Participating publishers of such information on the Internet have asked Red Swoosh to manage the delivery of such information to you and other end-users in an effort to make your downloads more efficient. Users of the Software share published software, images, text, video, music and other digital information managed by Red Swoosh (”Published Content”). When you are on-line, therefore, the Software may share Published Content on your computer system with other Red Swoosh Clients that have requested such Published Content. In that regard, Red Swoosh makes commercially reasonable efforts to avoid interfering with your other on-line activities (for example, we limit the amount of your available bandwidth that the Red Swoosh Client may use to share content so that most users will not notice performance degradation). Red Swoosh makes commercially reasonable efforts to avoid interfering with your system resources. You acknowledge and consent to the sharing and downloading of Published Content and agree that the Software may send commands to the Red Swoosh Client installed on your system to facilitate the downloading of Published Content and to share Published Content between you and other end-users.
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Red Swoosh and its licensors retain all copyrights, trade secret rights, patents, trademarks, and any other proprietary rights covering or relating to the Software. You acknowledge that the Software includes or incorporates proprietary and confidential information belonging to Red Swoosh and its licensors. (i.e. this is far from open concept of Mozila)