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The real issue is, to paraphrase a football player, "What do lifetime mean?" Is it the lifetime of the product (typical in consumer goods), or was it the consum
by endersshadow 14y ago
The real issue is, to paraphrase a football player, "What do lifetime mean?" Is it the lifetime of the product (typical in consumer goods), or was it the consumer's lifetime (i.e.-until they died)? If it was the consumer's lifetime, if they had a site where someone died and another person was going to take over, would we then be upset if Joyent started charging the successor?
Lifetime typically means expected life of the product (see: lifetime warranties). Death is really, really complicated, so I can't imagine anybody would actually tie their products to a consumer's death.
- blndcat 14y agoIf you look at the offer on the waybackmachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20060202181857/http://textdrive.com/mixedgrill http://web.archive.org/web/20060202181857/http://textdrive.c... It has this Q&A item: How long is it good for? As long as we exist. The footer states: a Joyent company Nothing complicated, Joyent still exists. shrug
- endersshadow 14y agoYup, that's pretty cut and dry, and that's what I was looking for, so thanks. You guys that got hosed by this may have a breach of contract case if you'd like to take it that far.
- thesheep 14y agoThe original product specified that it was good for "as long as we [Joyent] exist". NOT for as long as that product exists.