Re: [Linux-migration-list] OpenPGP

[Joe K. <kle...@we...>]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 00:13, M. Fioretti wrote:

> Maybe not for Free SW itself, and for the actual developer who
> released under GPL, but what about packagers? If I *buy* a boxed set
> from Red Hat, Mandrake, whoever, can *they* be sued if something in that
> box reformats the hard disk? I 've been asked a similar question in
> the office: I got away saying:
> 
> 1) Yeah, just as you could with MS, and with the same probability of
>    success
> 2) This is what backups are for, right?
> 3) (Dilbertish) We aren't doing anything meaningful anyway, why
>    bother? The world might even be a better place *without* our
>    product...
> 
> Still, what is the correct answer?

	From what little info I have gotten the actual answer is very close to
#1.  If you read the licenses for 99.9% of the software (and most other
incorporeal "products") it says that there is no guarantee for any
fitness of usability or merchantability.  They also wave any damage that
the software might cause either accidentally or intentionally.

-- 
"It's time to KISS your BOT goodBYYYYYYEEEEEE!!!!!"
                -- Metabee, 'Medabots'