Re: Congress to look at software liability? OT

2002-01-20 Thread Bill Campbell
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

Re: Congress to look at software liability? OT

2002-01-20 Thread Joel Hammer
I think that your story proves my point. NOBODY can be sure that software is perfect. They sued Dow Corning out of business with pure junk science, and they are still destroying companies over the asbestos problem. They caused stagnation in the private aviation industry, and I believe, drove

Re: Congress to look at software liability? OT

2002-01-18 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 18 January 2002 09:16 am, Rick Sivernell wrote : On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:54:49 +0100 snippity for. While some foreign developers are very good, many are not. Those that are not use their language as a hinderence in convering in US to avoid or frustrate those who manage or use the

Re: Congress to look at software liability? OT

2002-01-18 Thread Ian
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. I think what is needed here is to prevent software companies from including clause in

Re: Congress to look at software liability? OT

2002-01-18 Thread Joel Hammer
The problem with holding software writers liable is this. They cannot anticipate all the uses or all the hardware the software will be aplied to. Neither, can they predict all the ineractions with every other piece of software aver written. Therefore, software would come with incredible