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Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:19:49 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Richard Kulawiec" <rsk () gsp org>
Right. I know you can't and won't. I can't either. So we can summarily dismiss all the concerns about liability because they have no relationship to reality. You will not be suing BigFirewallCo, no matter how horribly their product fails, no matter how bad the damage is, no matter how obvious to all of us the failure is, no matter how culpable we might all agree they are, because (a) your pockets aren't as deep as BigFirewallCo's, and (b) you'd probably lose anyway (c) after 11 years and a lot of billable hours for everyone's attorneys. (s/you/I/ and everyone else, unless we happen to work for a Fortune 50 company...and probably not even then.)
Yeah, Rich, but come on: you and I -- and even his managers -- know that while that is true (that no one's actually going to sue anyone, and likely legally cannot anyway), that *still* won't keep Pointy Haired Bosses from making that *capability* a firm requirement. That's why their hair is pointy. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Current thread:
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?, (continued)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Peter Kristolaitis (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jack Bates (Nov 10)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jones, Barry (Nov 11)
- Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Leo Bicknell (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jonathan Lassoff (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)