On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Designers and manufacturers of products that can easily be proven to be
> defective and capable of causing great damage and harm can be sued big
> time and the lawyers can make a pile of money. Why aren't they suing the
> designers, producers, and vendors of Windows email clients?
Have you ever actually read the licensing agreement you "sign"
by running that software? Basically, it says there's no warranty
that the software will do what it's supposed to or what you expect
it to do, and that you agree to hold the software company free from
any liability should anything bad happen. Running this software
constitutes agreement to this.
[X] I agree to run this software at my own risk, and hereby
affirm that I have no legal recourse for anything this
software may or may not do.
[ ] No, this is absurd. Abort the installation.
> If they would just sue them,
Try and sue, and you'll never even make it inside the lawyer's
office. Simply by running the software, you've already admitted
you have no case. If you haven't run the software, you have no
standing.
Under the present system, you'd have to convince the software
houses to voluntarily revise their licensing agreements. Good
luck!
- Steve
