Re: Cost of Documentation

Subject: Re: Cost of Documentation
From: Win Day <winday -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 06:52:20 -0400

At 10:02 AM 5/21/96 +1000, Colleen Dancer wrote:
>Hardware documentation can often be justified for liability reasons, but
>not software. At least in Australia people aren't liable over software.
<SNIP>

My client, as part of their engineering services, creates software that
operates refineries. You bet they're liable for accuracy in the
documentation. In fact, the part I was MOST careful about in my contract
was to make sure THEY and not me are responsible for accuracy.

Win
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Win Day
Technical Writer/Editor
Email: winday -at- idirect -dot- com

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