From: mcguire@cs.utexas.edu (Tommy Marcus McGuire) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: 12 Jul 1993 11:53:13 -0500
In article <1993Jul11.095015.2050@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:
[...]
>The main point with companies that go for commercial products is one of
>liability. If the product you buy does something nasty, like nuke your
>hardware or just not do the job it's supposed to then your legal dept can
>go take your supplier to the cleaners (assuming you got the contract
>worked out properly). If linux sends your monitor up in smoke (which IS
>a possibility when your playing with XFree86) then there are no
>comebacks on anyone except yourself. No company will take on risks like
>that which is why they're unlikely to adopt linux as their OS.
[...]
> Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff
[...]
Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever heard of a legal dept. taking
a software supplier to the cleaners? I've been waiting for it, but
I haven't heard of any specific cases.
All of the warranty information I've seen (which has just been small-
computer-ish stuff, admittedly) has indicated that the only guarantee
you get is that the media isn't corrupted.
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