On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:49:40 EDT, Chris Paget said: > I agree completely that maybe the best way to stop all this is to make vendors > liable for flaws in their products. I heard rumours that this was being > considered in the US - anyone know what the score is?
Be careful what you ask for, you may get it. There be many nasty legal dragons here. Who gets to foot the bill if a security hole is found in an open source product like Apache? Or one that's just "3 guys in their living room"? It's going to be REALLY hard to write a law that prevents disclaimer of liability for a big software shop and still allows it for the average GPL software... Who pays if the vendor/author has already released a patch and people haven't upgraded? This is an important case - note that it's the rare worm that's gotten loose before the vendor has a patch....
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