Re: Commercial support, was Re: [HACKERS] v6.4.3 ?

Dan Gowin wrote:
> But you must also remember that all software companies,
> including Microsoft, warrant only the media the software
> comes on and take absolutely no responsibility for the
> use (damage) that may arise from using the software. Take
> a look at one of your professional software licenses and
> read it. You will find that according to these licenses
> that most commercial software is no better than shareware
> (License wise).

That's not necessarily true. While it is almost always true for
consumer-off-the-shelf software, there is plenty of software that
doesn't fit into that category. Quite a few software companies will
sign support contracts (IBM is one) where they will take responsibility
for damage that may arise from the use of the software. This is also
the case for many industrial software packages. Granted, PostgreSQL
doesn't really fall into any of these categories, but these types of
warratees *do* exist.

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