Re: Schneier: Trust, but verify, Microsoft's pledge
From: Bernd Felsche (bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au)Date: 01/22/02
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From: Bernd Felsche <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:53:37 +0800
roberson@ibd.nrc.ca (Walter Roberson) writes:
>In article <947kqbo3hb.fsf@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>,
>Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>:Hopefully, the lawyers will realize that most open source software
>:doesn't have any financial resources *worth* suing, and that the place
>:they can make their 30% is going after large corporations that have
>:negligently failed to fix known deficiencies in their software even
>:after they were made aware of the problems.
>:In other words - Joe Smith probably isn't worth suing because his
>:frobozz-o-matic 0.13.4 has a bug.
>On the contrary: Joe Smith is worth suing because he can't defend
>himself very well, and proceeding with the lawsuit will send
>a "chill" to open-source authors to know that no matter how obscure
>they are, they could be next.
>Remember to "Follow the money!" -- ask yourself who would benefit
>from open-source authors fearing to release anything.
Read the fine print of the software agreement. You can get all your
money back straight away. No quibbles.
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