It's Your Problem (Not Theirs) nytimes.com
Once more, mainly for amusement, on the subject of shrink-wrap, and now click-wrap, contracts. But buried in there we have this revealing quote:
Steve Tapia, a Microsoft corporate attorney, says it wouldn't be fair to hold software to the same standards as, say, a car. That's lucky, because auto makers have found it very expensive to sell cars with defects -- especially defects they knew about. Software is different, Tapia says, "because personal computer software may be used for a myriad of different purposes on an infinite amount of hardware combinations."
Yeah, but when it comes to antitrust law, Microsoft software is just like a car- or a Chrysler car radio, as the case may be. Another one of those things where small minds are a problem. Whose problem it will be, we don't know yet.
Cheers, Dan. |
