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I'm curious on how responsibility works in this case, e.g. a driver can be held accountable for causing an accident, but who is accountable for bugs causing acc
by jmngomes 12y ago
I'm curious on how responsibility works in this case, e.g. a driver can be held accountable for causing an accident, but who is accountable for bugs causing accidents? The software house? I can only imagine the price of civil responsibility insurance for this...
- troymc 12y agoThe software industry has a tradition of inserting a "Disclaimer of Warranty" and a "Limitation of Liability" into all licenses. Do those hold up in court? I don't know. It is bizarre. Imagine if car companies did that. Example 1: The GNU GPL, sections 15-17, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Example 2: Microsoft Services Agreement, sections 11 & 12: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-services-agreement http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-service...