>What about the gas stove that leaks gas? No modification whatsoever is intended to have to happen to integrate that particular package with the rest of a pers

>What about the gas stove that leaks gas? No modification whatsoever is intended to have to happen to integrate that particular package with the rest of a person's house. This is completely different to how most software works, whereby dynamically linked libraries actual implementations of particular symbols can be changed out from under the user at any time. Therefore, legally speaking the demarcation of liability is far simpler to demonstrate/self-evident. >Or electric one that have live connected to case... Governed by electrical code. >Surely the user is responsible not the manufacturer? Technically yes, the user is ultimately responsible for final detection of, and escalation of the defect. If you don't engage the legal process around a defective, non compliant appliance, nothing happens/changes to fix it. The rest is implementation detail.