Not enough!

Posted Dec 9, 2011 1:22 UTC (Fri) by alan (guest, #4018)
In reply to: Not enough! by fyodor
Parent article: Download.com "apologises" for bundling (The H)

I wonder what would have happened if Fyodor were a big corporation and Download.com were an individual software developer.

"Sorry we accidentally engineered malware and took pains to disguise our modifications to your installer to mask what we did. Oops!"

Not enough indeed!!! They should have to pay reparations to Fyodor and acknowledge their deception and the reasons for it to the people who they deceived.

Not enough!

Posted Dec 24, 2011 23:37 UTC (Sat) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link]

Actually, they should be prosecuted under criminal law. In Germany the appropriate paragraph would probably be "Computer Sabotage". Additionally it is clearly unfair competition, slander (against the developers, whether FLOSS or not) and perhaps even fraud. Ofc, criminal prosecutions are only done against real people, not against the invented and insane concept of legal people :(
(except in truly extreme circumstances, where the legal person still does not get a punishment that is in any way, shape or form comparable to what would be done to a real person)