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Dear Uncle Bob~Hold Uncle Bob Harmless



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Dear Uncle Bob

The Legal Land-Scape clears . . . May we request you, please, to
re-consider
Y2000 fixes for:-
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TradeStation 3.5 build 10 {Motion proposed by JimO}
SuperCharts 2 vers 2.0 & 2.1     { request of richardh }
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Your awe-struck nephews will be delighted to sign the "Hold Uncle
Bob Harmless" form !

Thank you

cheers
Richard Harrisson
Aegina, Greece
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> Omega has indicated that it does not plan to fix any versions of
SuperCharts or
> TradeStation except the current versions.  So users of earlier versions
of the
> products are basically stuck unless they get a "fix" elsewhere.
> 
> I've taken a look at the legal documentation I got with SuperCharts.  The
> Disclaimer of Warranty & Limited Warranty states:
> 
> "If the software or written materials are defective, you, and not Omega
Research
> Inc., or its dealers, distributors, agents, or employees assume the
entire cost
> of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction."
> 
> I think it's pretty clear that expensive software which was written and
sold in
> the 1990's - and which isn't Y2K compliant - is "defective" (i.e., not
suitable
> for its intended use).  And since I as a user have - according to the
warranty -
> assumed the liability of paying for all "necessary servicing, repair, or
> correction" of "defects" - Omega is hardly in a position to complain if I
choose
> to get the software fixed and pay for it out of my own pocket (as opposed
to
> suing Omega to get Omega to fix the product).
> 
> BTW - if there's any ambiguity in these documents at all - it would be
construed
> against Omega - since Omega wrote the documents. 
> Robyn