homemade computer for fun and experience...

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Apr 6 10:33:46 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 <gram_at_cnct.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
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
>
Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 10:33:46 BST