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Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..')

From: Dave Stewart <dbs () ntrnet net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:32:11 -0400


At 04:14 PM 7/25/2001, Dan Hollis wrote:

Microsoft is advertising "high security padlocks", but is instead selling
locks that dont work at all.

I actually talked to an intellectual property attorney about this today...just in passing, but his remark was

"Microsoft is not responsible for someone else committing criminalacts. If you leave your house unlocked, that doesn't mean it is NOTbreaking and entering if someone comes in and steals things."

Current thread:

Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') LBolton (Jul 25)
- Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Dan Hollis (Jul 25)
  - Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Dave Stewart (Jul 25)
    - RE: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Matt Levine (Jul 25)
    - Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Dan Hollis (Jul 25)
    - Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Adam McKenna (Jul 25)
    - Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Joseph T. Klein (Jul 25)
    - Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Gary E. Miller (Jul 25)
    - RE: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Chance Whaley (Jul 25)
    - RE: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Dan Hollis (Jul 25)
    - RE: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Chance Whaley (Jul 25)
    - RE: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Gary E. Miller (Jul 25)
    - RE: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..') Gary E. Miller (Jul 25)

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