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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RE Zortech problems
Summary: Read the disclaimers...
Message-ID: <1675@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 19:18:04 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <1990Mar5.170809.5120@bath.ac.uk> ccsis@bath.ac.uk (Icarus Sparry) writes:

  Summary: Bad Experience from Zortech Ltd (England)
  	Urgent order took long time to arrive, was wrong when it did arrive,

As you should know, there is no implied or express warranty, etc...; software
publishers are very keen on having their contracts respected literally. I
doubt that Zortech Ltd. ever made any promises to you as to the delivery
dates, or the performance or even the composition of the product.

In any case it strikes me as unwise to depend for a time critical project on
last minute arrangements with a supplier of products that are excplicitly
disclaimed against anything, and about a language that is still evolving at
a breakneck pace. You take your chances...

  	and it then took 2.5 months to get my money back.

I am impressed that you got it back at all. This is quite uncommon in this
industry.

While I sympathize with your plight, it is based on unreasonable
expectations; hey, after all the very language you are using is labeled as
'experimental' and subject to major evolutionary change...
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Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi           | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth        | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
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