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From: johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: University's and AT&T's C++2.1 license agreement, HELP!
Message-ID: <270@srchtec.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 16:19:31 GMT
References: <28335@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: search technology, inc.
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In article <28335@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.colorado.edu
 (George Hartzell) writes:

 [...bulk of legal obfuscation about AT&T's software copywrong...]

>    rights granted herein.  AT&T-IS and other developers make no
>    other representations or warranties, expressly or impliedly.
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^

"Impliedly?"  Is that even a word?     :-)


Sounds like another case of an organization (or an individual, for that
matter), who really REALLY doesn't want to take responsibility for the
possibility of actually doing something *wrong*.

I can understand why both companies and individuals seek to have their
legal beagles draw up paperwork which will protect them against infringements
of their rights ("actual" rights, not legal rights), but when the "I'm not
liable for anything I do wrong" type of contract starts becoming commonplace,
its time for reform.

Just my $16.98 worth.   :-)

-- 
John T. Baldwin                     | "Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!"
Search Technology, Inc.             | (A plague on those who said our good
johnb%srchtec.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu |  things before we did!)