On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 9:32 am, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
You do get exactly the above - a formal warranty for fixing bugs that can be reproduced by a well defined set of conditions - when you purchase hardware & software from good vendors.And you fix the cpu-ram-mobo-whatever problem by making customised products defined to do just what u specified. People who need such things - petrochem, pharma industry, defence, medical electronics - pay fat sums for the privelege.
ahh. this is what i mean. Why cant a quality conscious team developing a foss app aspire to this? Just because some companies give crappy warranties that warranty nothing it doesnt mean that open source developers should follow suit.
ppl would be willing to pay fat sums to us too for the priveledge. Certainly do-able and should not be done with too many nitpicking specifications. The extent and nature of liability accepted also has to be carefully specified with relation to the nature of the software package in question. Car manufacturers do exclude liability for breakage of glass parts, headlights etc.