darrylo@HPNMXX.HP.COM (03/23/91)
> You shouldn't expect sympathy when you complain about support for GNU > software (or lack thereof, whatever the case may be). If you read the > copyright notices, you will see that there is no warranty. If you're > upset with GNU software, you can do a couple of things. You can start > your own software company and do it the way you think it should be > done or you can buy commercial software. From what I have heard, you > shouldn't get your hopes too high about the quality of commercial > support either. There's also a third choice: get involved and help to make "free" software "better". -- Darryl Okahata UUCP: {hplabs!, hpcea!, hpfcla!} hpnmd!darrylo Internet: darrylo%hpnmd@relay.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the little green men that have been following him all day.
leisner.wbst139@XEROX.COM (03/24/91)
(not sure if help-gnu-emacs is the place ---) What warranty comes with software? That you like it? That it works? What does works means? You pays your money and takes your chances. Or you get quality free stuff, which works and is changable (if necessary). I don't see software vendors do anything useful except take your money and hide source code. They don't seem to fix bugs or let compentant people fix them. I'm thankful for the quality offered in the GNU stuff (and the documentation is very readable and useful). marty (Knowledge is useful in the Information Age) (Software is mindstuff. It is the hardest activity created by man) ARPA: leisner.wbst139@xerox.com NS: leisner:wbst139:xerox UUCP: hplabs!arisia!leisner