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Thu, 28 Aug 2003
Software product liability
At one of r0ml's many
excellent presentations, he commented on the use of product liabilty lawsuits as a weapon to be used by open source against closed source software, on the premise that the open source community truly believed their products to be more reliable than closed source programs. Additional repetitions of the events of recent weeks may lead us to a world where such lawsuits become a reality, but not as a result of r0ml's proposed strategy.
Declan McCullagh's
News.com article tells both sides of the story. Cem Kaner, quoted in McCullagh's story, had own take on this issue.
The software industry as a whole needs to find ways to improve software reliability. If we don't find a way to do it, the legal system is going to find way to do it for us.
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