Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

[Roedy Green]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:42:52 -0800, robic0 wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

>If the software opens a file and is in the middle of writing to it,
>then the user dumps the power to the machine and ends up having to
>reformat, thereby losing all his data, at what point does the 
>liability stop? And how is fault proven or dished out? Does the
>law specifically state "repeatability" in its language?

It would expect it to work much the way a car works.  If you have an
accident, that is your fault. If the fuel pump is badly designed so it
catches fire, that in the manufacturers fault.
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