Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation

Thu Nov 10 18:19:20 UTC 2011

You guys are hilarious. OK. I give up. It never happens. I'll leave this 
thread alone.

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 11/10/2011 12:19 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
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>> From: "Richard Kulawiec"<rsk at gsp.org>
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>> Right. I know you can't and won't. I can't either. So we can
>> summarily dismiss all the concerns about liability because they
>> have no relationship to reality. You will not be suing BigFirewallCo,
>> no matter how horribly their product fails, no matter how bad the damage is,
>> no matter how obvious to all of us the failure is, no matter how culpable
>> we might all agree they are, because (a) your pockets aren't as deep
>> as BigFirewallCo's, and (b) you'd probably lose anyway (c) after 11 years
>> and a lot of billable hours for everyone's attorneys. (s/you/I/ and
>> everyone else, unless we happen to work for a Fortune 50 company...and
>> probably not even then.)
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> Yeah, Rich, but come on: you and I -- and even his managers -- know that while
> that is true (that no one's actually going to sue anyone, and likely legally
> cannot anyway), that *still* won't keep Pointy Haired Bosses from making that
> *capability* a firm requirement.
>
> That's why their hair is pointy.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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