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From: jrv@demon.siemens.com (James R Vallino)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: open this package and you're stuck with it
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Date: 15 Feb 90 14:37:06 GMT
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In article <3733@paperboy.OSF.ORG> hankin@sauron.osf.org (Scott Hankin) writes:
>nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:
>    I don't know how they work this out with the actual producers, because some
>    of them don't offer any guarantee at all (MacInTax, for example - although
>    I might be able to see the reasoning there) and I believe that it is up to
>    the vendor just how much guarantee they offer.

The way PC Connection "works" this out with the producer is by sticking a label on the
outside of the package which says "if you open it you're stuck with it.  Go
complaint to the original company".  That's what was on the Microsoft Quick
C product which I just bought.


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