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When I bought my Dell pc in the 90s, I had to sign a disclaimer saying that I was not going to use it in the creation of nuclear weapons.
by southwesterly 3y ago
When I bought my Dell pc in the 90s, I had to sign a disclaimer saying that I was not going to use it in the creation of nuclear weapons.
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- cafard 3y agoSeriously? I remember some freeware (a Scheme?) from the 1980s or 1990s that said that it was not provided for use in nuclear something--maybe just power, maybe weapons. It was not clear from the notice whether this was a political statement or a lawyerly defense against possible liability--at least I didn't inspect the statement closely enough to tell.
- thequux 3y agoThat clause (which was a more general restriction on use in safety-critical systems) was definitely part of the Java EULA pre-OpenJDK, but I'd imagine that it was more widespread. As I understand it, it was very much a liability issue for Sun (not to mention the PR nightmare of being in any way a cause of a nuclear accident). If you wanted you could pay them a great deal of money to accept that liability, but they wouldn't do it for free.
- thfuran 3y agoThat sort of clause still persists in EULAs. It's in iTunes'. Or it was just a few years ago at any rate and I assume still is.