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- From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Re: Licence to Net? No! (was Re: Fun things to do to RTM)
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:22:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.163322.24608@news2.cis.umn.edu> charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.011139.3166@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
- >(Matt Welsh) writes:
- >But the Foo/9000 and Foonix come with licenses that say THIS COMPUTER AND
- >ALL OF ITS SOFTWARE ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO DO ANYTHING WHATSOEVER. ANYTHING
- >THEY DO IS NOT OUR PROBLEM. WE DISCLAIM EVERYTHING. Those disclaimers
- >don't mean anything? We can all sue computer companies for buggy software?
- >How about if you go first? I don't have the dough.
-
- I'd never invest my time or money in a system that didn't in some way
- guarantee that it would operate as expected under certain conditions.
- Of course, all software (and hardware) has bugs. All GNU software comes
- with "Absolutely no warranty", but I trust it because they make a great
- effort to fix bugs that people find. This only means that if it does
- break on me, I can't sue them.
-
- Most commercial hardware and software differs in this respect, however.
-
- mdw
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- Matt Welsh mdw@tc.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center
- "Go on, emote! I was raised on thought balloons!"
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