... and herein lies yet another problem; the feral govt is so well in bed
with M$ they wouldn't even consider upsetting the cosy deals.
Howard.
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> > > Hmm, wonder if the disgruntleds will sue. :-)
> >
> > And M$ thought they had problems with the Justice Deaprtment case. M$
> > would probably go under if they got sued by some of the heavy hitters that
> > lost money over this :)
>
> And here in lies the problem with software. Software licenses are like
> pieces of art, buyer takes all responsibility. You cannot sue Microsoft
> if their word processor trashes every word document on your machine and
> costs you billions, even if Microsoft advertise their product as a word
> processor you take sole responsibility for determining that the software
> is fit for the purpose you intend to use it for. You also only get a
> license to use the product, you cannot on-sell it with the second hand
> computer.
>
> The product protection that software companies enjoy is obscene! Any other
> company producing any other product would have been slaughted by
> product recall costs.
>
> Time the Government changed the rules such that software is sold like any
> other engineered product.
>
>
> P.
>
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