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Marin David Condic wrote:
> Most folks would say "Without any warranty... but we believe it is A Good
> Thing" which amounts to nothing more than marketing because it has no teeth.

I've only ever seen two kinds of shrink-wrap licenses. (Of course,
custom code that costs $10K+ comes with something different...)

One says "We don't warrant anything. We especially don't warrant that'll
work for you in particular, because you might try to make it do
something it wasn't designed to do."

The other says "We warrant it'll work substantially the way the
documentation says."

Of course, if it didn't, you'd take it back anyway, and "substantially"
generally means "modulo any bugs we might have left in it."

-- 
Darren New 
San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand.
      Remember, drive defensively if you drink.