From: <an...@cp...> - 2006-08-04 12:29:56
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:07:06PM +0900, Jun OKAJIMA wrote: > Maybe the biggest matter for you is, to contract a good lawyer. > Although I feel using coLinux is fairly safety solution for grid computing, > but no one here including me can not guarantee anything, and Well, this was implicit as for every open source software. > we know every program must have bugs. > ( and of course, we have no responsibility of any compensation.) Hmm are we changing topic here? ;) First I also get zero compensation from the users that potentially could be using coLinux to run CPUShare. They get compensation from me instead, and most important before I allow them to be compensated (and in turn before they can take any risk) they have to explicitly agree to take any risk associated with the CPUShare software themself by committing themself to the CPUShare User Agreement. http://www.cpushare.com/user_agreement CPUShare has also zero responsibility if something goes wrong, all CPUShare released software is under the LGPL 2.1, it's pure free software like the Linux Kernel. The User Agreement is explicit that CPUShare will never be liable for any damage. And if you don't agree with the user agreement you can't create a CPUShare account and in turn you can't use CPUShare. CPUShare doesn't distribute any proprietary software at all, even the very linux kernel that is the thing that has to provide the security to CPUShare, has to be run at the risk of the user. CPUShare has clear commercial objectives but it's still a research project, and like you said all software can have bugs, and I've absolutely no control on the hardware bugs. Also note that boinc and world community grid may have bugs too because nothing is perfect. Furthermore every seccomp security related bug, is a bug for everyone else using linux in multiuser systems too. > So, it must be wise to take steps to meet the situation that you are sued, > before starting something actually. Dont you think so? Why do you think somebody should want to sue me in the first place? Everything I'm doing is perfectly legal, I'm obviously going to pay plenty of taxes as well if it'll be profitable, so I don't have any reason to be worried to be sued in my own conscience. I know anybody can sue anybody for anything (this was largely demonstrated by a recent lawsuit), but if I was to care about that I would need to stop writing open source software as a whole, not just the CPUShare client software. I'm not living to be worried by anything. I live to be legal, I live to pay taxes, and I live to create wealth. The rest I simply don't care about. > For technical view point, not legal or business one, What you should > do is making a better installer ( and documents and icons or,,) of > coLinux, and doing large validation tests. Initially my installer will generate a .iso CD image. Later I could also make a colinux installer (or you could extend your own installer to automatically eat the local .iso CPUShareLiveCD), but it's too early at the moment. My only short term objective is to verify the CPUShareLiveCD .iso image will run under coLinux. Thanks a lot for the help! |