Re: Licence to Net? No! (was Re: Fun things to do to RTM)

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From: Matt Welsh
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:22

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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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