On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:18:45AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >This must be the dumbest idea in a long time. >This is like holding a builder liable because someone broke into his >building by digging under the foundation or smashing a window. >DUMB.
Not dumb if the builder puts locks on doors that don't work or leaves gaping holes in the building so that the triple-locked doors are worthless. On the other hand, we stopped marketing the accounting systems I developed because of the potential liability problems. We had a situation where a customer had five years of acccounting data on-line (wholesale furniture using our integrated system), had a hard drive problem, then attempted to make backups -- using the only good tapes they had, wiping out all their backups. I had told them not to use those tapes, and warned them weeks before that their hard drive was getting flakey so we could schedule a replacement. We had done everything in our power to prevent the problem from getting really critical, but that wouldn't have kept them from suing Celestial and costing us a ton of money defending ourselves. BTW: I did manage to get all their data off the system, and restored on another hard disk in spite of their efforts to destroy it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``It's time to feed the hogs'' -- Unintended Consequences _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.