Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:40:15 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Pascal Hofstee <daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates in latest build? Message-ID: <19990909084015.G58237@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <199909082120.OAA02710@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> References: <v0420552cb3f9a8f52804@[195.238.1.121]> <199909082120.OAA02710@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:20:08PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In such an event your customers would have the legal right to sue you. > They might try to sue a volunteer organization, e.g. FreeBSD, however > that might be a stiffer battle. You might opt to sue FreeBSD, however > that too might be an uphill battle. You as the service provider are > the one responsible for choosing a product and choosing the personnel > to install and maintain that product leaving you almost fully culpable. > Furthermore since FreeBSD Inc. is comprised of a group of volunteers > and has few if any assets, who would you sue and how much would you get? > > In short, in this case the service provider would be mostly responsible. > Yep! Because of this potential problem Pavilion Internet have decided to replace our 20 or so FreeBSD servers with 200 or so NT boxes, because even though they're less reliable if they go wrong we can sue Microsoft :) Joe p.s. only joking - honest. p.p.s. can I stop shaking now - makes me sick just thinking about it. -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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