Good point - some rights can't be signed away by contracts and license agreements, no matter what those say. For example automobile manufacturers can't hand you

Good point - some rights can't be signed away by contracts and license agreements, no matter what those say. For example automobile manufacturers can't hand you a sales agreement that exempts them from (a whole list of) responsibilities, because governments recognize a public interest and pass laws insisting on safety standards, availability of parts for 20 years, etc, etc. Govts should now catch up with the modern world and recognize the public interest in computer infrastructure safety; by ensuring that IT can't license away its responsibility to take all reasonable measures to reduce risk (thus opening up liability as well.) At some point, using Rust - in many cases - even if it's more expensive, will be such a reasonable safety measure enforced by tort law or statute. Not quite yet, perhaps, because the language is young. But soon. The EU is now taking Google and other corporations to task for their user agreements (licenses), to try to get them into compliance with consumer law there. It's a start, I suppose. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/17/europe_facebook_google_twitter_fine/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/17/europe_facebook_goo...