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class=977155815-03112008>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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=left><FONT size=2>Brian Kelsay</FONT></P><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Monty J. Harder<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday,
November 01, 2008 12:09 AM<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:29 PM, James Sissel <SPAN
dir=ltr><></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">And
companies like to have a good company to support<BR>the OS which gives them
someone to sue if things go<BR>bad.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>#include
<ianal.h><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR></BODY></HTML>