homemade computer for fun and experience... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Apr 1999

You're quite right that most software license agreements decline to warrant
"suitability for any specific purpose," as a matter of the boilerplate, but
DEC sales agreements, not the licenses, specifically dodged the question of
their software doing anything of use at all.  In any case, I found that
distasteful and, from the point at which I learned of that, declined ever to
associate myself with any DEC hardware or software again.  I doubt that it's
cost me even a dime to do so.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Ward D. Griffiths III &lt;gram(a)cnct.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: homemade computer for fun and experience...

...
 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:

  I've yet to see ANY software license that
guarantees the software will
 actually DO anything.  Some do guarantee to take up space on a disk.
 That's about it. 
Actually, I've never seen a software license that guarantees to take
up disk space, though the bit on the outside generally implies you'd
best have a bunch to spare.  Hell, I've only seen one _printed book_
with a space guarantee, when Robert A. Heinlein in his _Expanded
Universe_ promised that the book would contain enough pages to hold
the covers apart or your money back.  (Mind you, lots of computer
documentation would fail _that_ promise if they attempted it, be it
hardware or software manuals).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall"                                Michael Longcor