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> if we simply had real and effective product liability rules... Isn't there a risk it software would become as ineffective as healthcare? It seems to me that
by jopsen 5y ago
> if we simply had real and effective product liability rules...
Isn't there a risk it software would become as ineffective as healthcare?
It seems to me that private enterprises aren't good at handling huge uncertainties (like liability). So businesses would aggressively minimize liabilities. Sure we would get better software, but we might get less competition, higher barriers to entry, more expensive products, and less capable products.
Suing companies for doing the wrong thing is an expensive mechanism. Gradually regulating supply-chain documentation is probably cheaper.
- jrm4 5y agoI literally believe we would likely get the opposite of every possible negative thing you mentioned; mostly because I think the cause of most software problems (or more specifically, the difficulty of discovering and fixing them) comes directly from the monopoly and monopoly-like players that currently exist. I'm aware that a world in which e.g. Microsoft was actually sued to the extent of the damage it has caused is hard to envision, but I can't help but think breaking that sort of thing up by whatever means gets you more visibility, more localism, more shallow bugs, etc.