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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
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Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
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Date: 7 Jul 90 20:44:11 GMT
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>> nobody guarantees software, not even the commercial stuff.

> Wrong.

> CE Software, Central Point Software, ALSoft, Preferred Publishers and
> Symantec, just to mention a few Macintosh vendors, as well as DEC
> (last time I checked - 2 years ago) guarantee that their software
> does what the docs say it does, and if it can't fixed it in a
> reasonable amount of time, your money will be refunded.

If that's a guarantee, well, then all free software is guaranteed.

Most of the big free software places (MIT X group, FSF, Larry Wall,
etc) actually fix things faster than most commercial vendors (once you
can get them to agree that such-and-such needs fixing - a problem which
(as someone pointed out here recently) exists with the commercial
outfits as well).

					der Mouse

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