Unlimited software warranties (was Re: Mach from mt Xinu)

Robert W. Withrow witr at rwwa.COM
Sat Mar 16 01:32:22 AEST 1991


In article <8135 at rsiatl.Dixie.Com> jgd at 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''!
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