Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:26147 comp.lang.c++:6579 comp.sys.ibm.pc:44913
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!lectroid!bigbootay!jmann
From: jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: open this package and you're stuck with it
Message-ID: <777@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 14:39:58 GMT
References: <48c21c82.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com
Reply-To: jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Distribution: usa
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering.
Lines: 11

The problem with returning software you don't like is that there is a very
fuzzy line between "doesn't work" and "doesn't work as cleanly/elegantly
as I would like it to."  If you buy an editor, let's say, and it's quite
kludgy: it uses idiotic key sequences, non-standard menus, and so forth.
You can't stand using it.  Yet it does all this with no "bugs."  Should you
be able to return it for a refund?

If you answer yes to the above, does this mean that you should be able to
return any book that you buy but don't like?

Jim