>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.
You cannot require a warranty of the provider if there is no
consideration in exchange. "I left the source on my server and you
fetched it. Your problem if it doesn't work."
This thread is degenerating into speculation. The best thing is to laugh
it off and then get back to work.
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