On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:24 am, Terence McCarthy wrote:
| In what other field of commerce or industry would anyone be able to
| sell a product on the following terms and get away with it?
|
| You can purchase this car, but:
|
| a. you do not own it, you are only licensed to use it
|
| b. you cannot sell it on without our permission.
|
| c. you can only drive it where we say you can.
|
| d. you cannot share the car with anyone else
|
| e. you can only use petrol approved by us
|
| f. if it breaks down or just fails to work it is not our fault
|
| g. if you or others suffer injury, death or other loss through our
| negligence, incompetence or other fault we are not responsible.
|
| h. we do not warrant that this product is suitable for the purpose
| for which it is designed and sold (that is, if it does not do the
| job that we advertise it to do, that is not our responsibility).
|
| i. when we bring out a new model you will have to buy it, because
| the only petrol you will be able to buy will only run the new
| upgrade/model
or, we could sign kyoto, as you propose, and both manufacture and
ownership of the car would cease to be possibilities.
--
dep
there's more to history than what's in books;
that's why it took so long to happen.
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