Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!ked From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Support versus Bug Fixes (Was: Can't backup to floppy) Message-ID: <14632@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 23 Sep 88 02:57:20 GMT References: <913@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS> <425@l5comp.UUCP> <270@belltec.UUCP> <433@l5comp.UUCP> <8229@alice.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 35 In article <8229@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes: >In article <433@l5comp.UUCP> scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) writes >(or should I say "flames") about Bell Technologies not supporting their >Unix. >Have you also noticed the kind of disclaimers you find on most software >products: "...makes no warranties, either express or implied, regarding the >enclosed computer software package, its merchandability or its fitness for >any particular purpose." >Know what this means? You just paid your money for NOTHING. If the floppies Not only do software outfits shove this kind of thing down your throat, some have the audacity to try to collect royalties on what you do with what you've bought or tell you when or where or when you can use it. As an academic who teaches courses in [Japanese] business history, I've often thought that either I or the University should receive royalties for any commercially valuable ideas that come out of my lectures or those of other faculty. The idea of being able to charge extra to explain the ambiguities and mistakes in my lectures is very, very appealing, to say the least. Better yet, I'd like to collect a bit of tuition everytime I revise my lecture notes. Of course, when what I and other faculty have to say is a crock, then we'll hide behind the "make no warranties" clause. -:) Earl H. Kinmonth History Department University of California, Davis Davis, California 95616 916-752-1636/0776 INTERNET: ucdked!cck@ucdavis.edu UUCP: ucdavis!ucdked!cck LOCAL: ucdked!cck@ucdavis