People should be really required to read The Windows or any other commercial
software EULA's. They make no promises their software will do what you
bought it for, and will take no responsibility for it's failings. They
put restrictions
on the user and grant you no rights. Mr. Gates reserves the right to say
your
$500.00 software license has been revoked and you have to destroy your copy.
You don't buy commercial software. You license it.
Open source licenses are really less restrictive than the commercial ones.
They talk about support. If say Corel went belly up tomorrow without
selling their products off to someone, who could legally upgrade and patch
their graphics and word processing software.
There have been a lot of orphans in less common commercial software.
For open source can you see a lack of support. If something is critical
for your company you can hire someone to fix it. You can't legally touch
any of the code in commercial software.
Richard Smoot
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