Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!violet!pacolley
From: pacolley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Colley)
Subject: Re: HP48SX Interface ***SOFTWARE*** for sale
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.194019.11787@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: Software, Warranty, Disc
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1990Jul5.193124.11300@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 90 19:40:19 GMT
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In article <1990Jul5.193124.11300@watdragon.waterloo.edu> I write:

>``Copyright and warranty information is contained in the README file
>on the disc.''

One beef to Hewlett Packard:

Why is the warranty information on the #$%@! disk?!  Can I return my
cable if it is faulty?  I may never know!

Worse yet, this is a golden opportunity for HP to warranty that the
media is readable without ever having to worry about a claim!  If they
can't read the media, they won't know that the warranty covers it...

Seems kind of weird to me.  I don't even know if a warranty on a disk
has any legal value.  How could I show a court that I hadn't changed
the warranty on the disk?

I know I probably sound nitpicky, but I would have preferred a warranty
on paper to the duplicate copy of the Software and Accessories list
that was in the box.

- Paul
  pacolley@violet.waterloo.edu or .ca
  "Quantum Mechanics:  The dreams stuff is made of"    - Ken Burnside