Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Inappropiate "BUGS" Sections
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.014656.27820@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <27625@cup.portal.com> <5940019@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <7962@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 90 01:46:56 GMT

In article <7962@tank.uchicago.edu> goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
>... SCO Xenix (and I'll bet SCO Unix as well) doesn't have a "bugs"
>section in its manuals.  They call it "comments" or the like...
>It does seem a bit childish to, in effect, censor the word "bugs" from
>manual pages...

This is common.  The reason is the US's demented liability laws, which
make sane companies reluctant to do anything which might possibly be
misconstrued as hinting at knowledge of defects in products.
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