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Re: Castles and Security (fwd)
From: Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:03:01 +1100 (EST)
In some email I received from Antonomasia, sie wrote: [...]
If I build a house and select quality bricks, and find that after the house was built the bricks were made of baked sand in stead of a concrete mixture (as advertised) as to allow anyone to enter in to my house, I could have legal recourse.
[...]
Furthermore, and this is where the open source community will benefit in the long term, that components can be analyzed and fixed, whilst products from the non-open source garage must be fixed by the vendor.And open-source suppliers will be exempt from the legal recourse you want ? Or prompt fixes will win immunity ?
FWIW, in my naievity, I suggested to some local fellows a while ago that we try and deliver software that actually came with some sort of gaurantee... the problem with that (as it was explained tome) is you're liabel for any failure of that software - EVEN IF IT ISN'T YOUR FAULT, i.e. because of bad RAM. So all those disclaimers you get with commercial software are in fact required and hence let software authors get away with producing buggy software that they don't have to fix. Support contracts which promise 24x7 coverage (and someone on your doorstop at 4:26am) are about the best you can do. Darren _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Castles and Security (fwd), (continued)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) Darren Reed (Jan 03)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) Frank Knobbe (Jan 03)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) twaszak (Jan 04)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) jeradonah (Jan 04)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) Bill_Royds (Jan 04)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) George Capehart (Jan 05)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) Ryan Russell (Jan 08)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) George Capehart (Jan 08)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) George Capehart (Jan 05)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) Scott, Richard (Jan 08)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) Antonomasia (Jan 08)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) Darren Reed (Jan 10)
- Re: Castles and Security (fwd) Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 10)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) Robert Graham (Jan 12)
- RE: Castles and Security Lance Spitzner (Jan 12)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) Robert Graham (Jan 12)
- RE: Castles and Security (fwd) Ben . Grubin (Jan 12)