Doug Werth wrote after Bruce Toback, >To a certain extent this has long been a CYA issue as much as anything else. >The purchase of a product or license to use comes with an expected warranty >from the company concerning both support and longevity. If it doesn't work >as advertised you have someone to blame. Public domain types of software >comes with neither support nor longevity "guaranteed." Thus, you have nobody >to point a finger at except for the person who recommended using said >software. "Expected warranty" doesn't mean working software. Haven't you seen commercial products with continuing bugs. Just because we have HP or Microsoft to blame doesn't make me feel any better. With public domain software, I have the ability to fix it myself or hire someone to fix it. Usually though, fixes come pretty fast. Maybe I'm way off, but in my experience, expected warranty doesn't seem to account for much. John Zoltak North American Mfg Co