DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: > -- 14 January 2002 Congress May Take New Look At Software Protection > from Product Liability For Security Flaws
A friend was dealing with Code Red recover at work (why, I don't know, but he's not a Linux user so maybe he couldn't help it ;-) It occurred to me that it might be nice to bill MS for the time the recovery took (and have legal backing to do that). Perhaps this particular case is a little gray since a patch was available. But think about it. The way to accomplish this is with the consumer - don't buy software unless the company accepts responsibility for their bugs. Open Source says "no warranty", but it doesn't cost anything, either. So if you pay, demand a warranty. Well, if you asked MS for a warranty, what would they charge? After they gave you the bill, would you still buy? Probably not. Good software costs a lot. (I hear the space shuttle software is very good, and the most expensive per line. It also runs on hardware that is difficult to find (core memory, maybe?) because rewriting it for new hardware would cost too much to retest. NASA is very anal about that, and rightly so, I think.) So I guess that the state of software production just isn't ready for warranties. Maybe someday. Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
