From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 13 15:29:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CB714D59 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01523; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:36:09 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:36:08 -0700 (PDT) From: To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Thomas David Rivers , ragnar@sysabend.org Subject: Re: BSD, GPL, the world today. In-Reply-To: <373B4B46.8DDE6A1E@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 May 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > And, being a software manafacturer myself (see http://www.dignus.com) - the > > thought of having legal responsibility for a potential problem in my > > software (which you've mentioned, despite anyone's best efforts, will > > have bugs) is very scary. I would want to pass that responsibility to > > the developers who wrote it, just as a bridge engineer is responsible > > for the bridge he designs. > > I'm with you so far, and trust me, you ARE responsible for problems in > your software. Anyone who can prove either negliegence or misintent can > sue you for damages regardless of how many feet of tiny type you put on > your packaging. > > > Then, the developers would, presumably, have > > to become licensed and have professional development/malpractice insurance... > > which ultimately drives up the price of the software. > > Would it really? I think we just have a skewed idea of the total cost > of software. How expensive is that $39 word processor when it crashes > and dumps the last four hours of your work into the bit bucket? I think > a lot of current software has a much higher cost than we really account > for. Just a comment -- there is software developer insurance available, and (from what I've heard) most software developers do purchase it. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message