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Software liability laws: a dangerous solution

Software liability laws: a dangerous solution

Posted Sep 6, 2007 16:40 UTC (Thu) by kh (subscriber, #19413)
Parent article: Software liability laws: a dangerous solution

Of course, liability laws might be written to exclude programs given away for free, or they might concern themselves with vendors and leave individual developers out of the picture.

I think another option would to be exclude vendors who provide a copy of their source code for their customers to verify and fix for themselves, but to hold liable companies who prevent these actions with proprietary software.


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