Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:15:24 -0500 From: Chris BeHanna <chris@behanna.org> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stuff I don't understand, and maybe never will. Message-ID: <1767EE85-222D-4773-83B9-F773958CE092@behanna.org> In-Reply-To: <15664.1467320198@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <15664.1467320198@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On Jun 30, 2016, at 15:56, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote= : > In essentially every other industry, crappy dangerous products, sold > to the public en mass (and generally with no warnings) can be taken > to task in a U.S. court of law. But not software. In this way, > software is in rare and elite good company with other marvelous > products which are also and likewise immune from product liability > actions, in particular tobacco and firearms. Groan. I just love FUD, don't you? Firearms are most definitely NOT "immune from product liability actions." I= f one fails to function in the manner it was designed, and someone is injure= d as a result, the manufacturer most certainly is NOT immune from liability.= If it fires out of battery and the user gets a faceful of burning powder a= nd brass, yup, liability. If the firearm catastrophically fails and it's no= t user error, the manufacturer is most certainly NOT immune from liability. = If the weapon fires while the safety is engaged, or when dropped muzzle-fi= rst, the manufacturer is most certainly NOT immune from liability.=20 Now, if the nonsense you're peddling is that you're upset that manufacturers= aren't liable for the blatant, deliberate, criminal misuse of their product= s, that's quite a different thing. We don't, for example, hold an auto manu= facturer responsible if a crazed soccer mom or a loser twenty-something mows= down a sidewalk full of people, nor should we, nor do we hold the FreeBSD Fo= undation liable if someone uses FreeBSD to craft a worm or virus, or to comm= it some other cybercrime.=20 --=20 Chris BeHanna chris@behanna.org=
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