Quoting David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > He's wanting suppliers to warrant the performance of GPL software, > > yet he > > fails to note how (in)effective any supposed warrant of commercial > and > > propriety software actually is in practice? Anybody managed to get > > a cent > > out of a commercial software supplier when it fails? > > Pretty much every EULA out there specifically disclaims all > warranties. Whether that's actually legal or not is another > matter... is software treated the same as hardware as far as the law > is concerned?
Well, read up the claims on behalf of "Software Patents" and you get one picture; read up the squeals of outrage at the thought of taking responsibility for bad software, and you get a completely different picture. Basically you have people taking other people for a ride. Wesley Parish > > - Dave > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
