[Fsf-friends] No warranty

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

On 23/12/03 12:10 pm, "Annamalai Gurusami"
<annamalai.gurusami@email.masconit.com> wrote:

> Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi <chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@t-mobile.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> Well, I dont agree with the analogy. A book is for learning about something.
>> Usually, software is a tool/utility.
>> 
>> Like Ramanraj said in a message previously, if a book is crap, the author
>> wont sell anymore and that is the end of his/her career as an author. The
>> same cant be said of big corporations which make crap commercial software.
> 
> The same does apply to _big_ corporations.  If their software is not
> useful, then it is not going to sell.

Really? What about Microsoft? Exception? I think it's more the norm than the
exception. And, the point is not whether a paticular piece of software is
useful. The point is what happens when it breaks. That's where warranties
come in.

Chandru