Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!spooky!witr From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert W. Withrow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Unlimited software warranties (was Re: Mach from mt Xinu) Message-ID: <1991Mar15.153222.11375@rwwa.COM> Date: 15 Mar 91 15:32:22 GMT References: <8024@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <8135@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates Lines: 16 In article <8135@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) makes some wonderful points about that ``Ol Debbil'' the *unlimited* money-back guarantee, ending with: > As it is now, especially if you are foolish enough to pay any > attention to shrink-wrap "license" fiction, you are pretty much buying > software on blind faith... Money-back warranties, whether voluntary > or forced on the industry by the government, gives the customer an > alternative to just eating the cost when he buys a pig in a poke and > that pig turns out to be dead. All I can say is, ``Amen Brother''! -- --- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA 01907 USA Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM