On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:13, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 9:32 am, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:

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You do get exactly the above - a formal warranty for fixing bugs that can be reproduced by a well defined set of conditions - when you purchase hardware & software from good vendors.And you fix the cpu-ram-mobo-whatever problem by making customised products defined to do just what u specified. People who need such things

• petrochem, pharma industry, defence, medical electronics - pay

fat sums for the privelege.

ahh. this is what i mean. Why cant a quality conscious team developing a foss app aspire to this? Just because some companies give crappy warranties that warranty nothing it doesnt mean that open source developers should follow suit.

Not at all. The opensource developer is giving "everbody" an opportunity to define his conditions and warranty the software, mundanely referred to as SLAs and AMCs :-). You could test some combo, warranty it and sell it. M$ is desperately trying to do the same with their stuff. The poor sods who plugged M$ crap to businesses will now be cut out of the loop, cause only M$ can provide fixes. Ditto (almost) for RH / Novell / IBM / HP.

ppl would be willing to pay fat sums to us too for the priveledge.

Bulls eye. RH / Suse / IBM are laughing all the way to the bank graciously accepting the aforementioned fat sums.

rgds jtd