On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:19:16 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
>... >>> ...who can be held accountable if some thing goes wrong. >> >>Accountable? Better read the disclaimer carefully. A software provider >>like IBM or an ISV will fix a bug if you report it. But, they won't pay >>you for down time or lost data... >> >I believe that. And even if you were to find a provider generous >enough to indemnify consequential damages, they'd be likely to >exclude ... >customer's programming error and hardware failure. ... Any vendor naive enough to be that generous would be swamped with bogus reports of lost productivity due to the product's behavior. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
