Jason Rennie wrote:
> Actaully one line of attack, might be to make warranty on software an
> enforceable thing.
>
> Sure this would mean that M$ would have to pay out a bit in insurance
> premiums to cover there crap software, BUT it would make it remarkably
> econmomical to release free software if you had an obligation to provide
> some sort of warranty.
>From the GNU Copyleft:
"Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
software."
Jason's suggestion if implemented by Governments would benefit large
companies such as Microsoft. Under this regime individuals or small
companies producing free sofware would be liable for bugs and after a
few class action suits (eg against sendmail and apache) those persons
and their software would be gone. What would be left would be those
companies that could afford insurance.
Mike
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