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Re: GOOD: A legal fix for software flaws?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:23:13 -0400
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:57:29 PDT, dhtml () hush com said:
We need to hear more of this type of noise. Unleash the repo man on the puppy mill owner and his cohorts. http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5067873.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed A legal fix for software flaws?
Nope. Targeting Microsoft may be a tempting idea, but it's fiendishly difficult to write the laws such that Microsoft can be sued and the average open-source vendor can't. And quite frankly, Microsoft has lawyers to fight lawsuits, and the open source community doesn't. You think things are bad *now*, imagine the scenario where Apache, Linux, the various *BSD's, and almost everything under the GPL all disappear - none of those have armies of lawyers to defend them.
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