Conversion to Linux

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

In fact, if you read most software EULAs, you will find that they "do
not guarantee the fitness of the product for the purpose intended."  So
it may not even work as an operating system.  I really wish people would
start reading before clicking to agree and stop spouting this crap about
having someone to sue.  Honestly, when is the last time any of us have
heard about MS getting sued be someone other than a government?
 

Brian Kelsay


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From: Monty J. Harder
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:09 AM



On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:29 PM, James Sissel <> wrote:


	And companies like to have a good company to support
	the OS which gives them someone to sue if things go
	bad.
	


#include <ianal.h>
But there wouldn't be any grounds to sue a support company "if things go
bad", because support contracts aren't written in a way that exposes the
support company to any liability for "bad things".  The contracts
require that the support company "respond" to problems within certain
time limits, but they cannot guarantee that that response will result in
the resolution of the problem to the satisfaction of the customer.

And that's because it isn't possible to make such a guarantee.  MS
doesn't guarantee it to their customers, nor does any other proprietary
software company, and neither do Red Hat, SuSE, or Canonical.

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