product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..')

Dan Hollis goemon at anime.net
Wed Jul 25 20:14:05 UTC 2001


On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 LBolton at geiger.com wrote:
> Your analogy is flawed.
> The question is, should Firestone be responsible for someone going around
> slashing the tires?  No they shouldn't.
> Then why should Microsoft or any other software manufacturer be responsible
> for the damage done by third parties?

Better analogy:

Microsoft is advertising "high security padlocks", but is instead selling
locks that dont work at all.

-Dan

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