23 Dec
2003
23 Dec
'03
12:10 p.m.
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.
Anyway the above argument (author's career ends), is tangential to the question of warranty.
Rgds, anna
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