At 10:41 03/08/99 -0500, Andy Kunz wrote:
>>i don't know why this shouldn't be required by law from all software
>>vendors. in fact i don't quite understand why it isn't already required --
>>withholding knowledge of bugs seems rather close to some kind of deceit or
>>fraud or however you may call it.
>
>Simply tell them you are using their product to develop a life-support
>system and ask if there are any things you need to know.

i guess many woud just tell me to read the license.

but in any case this wouldn't help a lot to stay current. it's not that
they find a bug or two in a year -- bugs are a reality, there is a constant
flow of bugs reports for most bigger packages, and all the software
licenses acknowledge that by excluding them from any kind of warranty :),
but they don't acknowledge them when it comes down to let you know what
they know. i would even go so far as not to require that they publish bugs
=they= find, but that they publish bugs =others= find (and report to them).

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