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The time has come for software liability laws
- wccrawford 15y agoHoly crap. Those laws would drive software prices sky-high. The developers have 2 choices: 1) Spend a lot more time developing and testing. 2) Spend a lot of money on insurance. I'm guessing they'll do the second, and these laws will serve no purpose other than to make people rich for figuratively "spilling hot coffee on themselves". My other thought was that the consumer would have to -prove- the software caused the damage. In the majority of cases, there is simply too much software on a single computer to prove that something was the cause. Only class action lawsuits would stick in anything but the most extreme cases. While I do think that software developers should take more care in developing their products, I don't think a law is going to help. The market already penalizes those who write crappy software... Other people hear about it and simply don't buy it. For instance, there are several game developing companies that I won't buy from. Not because their games are bad, but because they have all be so buggy that I can't stand the thought of playing their games. Their quality is consistently bad.
- markbernard 15y agoThe current laws already can be used for covering software. That is why you see EULAs everywhere that begin with WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT THIS SOFTWARE MAY CAUSE.