'cuz

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_pJflODMUlDFOR4RlEwBrIP8bRkCZeDTaKtlMbMDDOMx3q8pHEYT0GyMgkSM-C9VU2IU>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:56:36 -0700


Jeff Richard wrote:
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> However, if you look at Microsoft's licensing agreements, they are
> much more rigorous than Issaries licensing agreements...

...viz. relevant bit from Gaiman & Pratchett's "Good Omens", which contains a reference to computer license/warranty statements

     ...which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2)
     didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3)
     electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact
     failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you
     opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly
     and in no event the fault or responsibility of the
     manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself
     lucky to be allowed to give his money to the
     manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had
     just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would
     result in the attentions of serious men with menacing
     briefcases and very thin watches.  [The demon] Crowley
     had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered
     by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle
     Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul
     agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just
     saying: "Learn, guys."

           

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