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There are laws
that govern the merchinability and the suitability of professional products for consumers. If your data gets corrupted due to buggy s/w or hijacked due to insecure s/w, the vendor should be held liable.

Firestone did the unthinkable to allow for very long time the selling of tires that were known to be deffective. MS is doing the same thing and it has gotten away with it only because people sign the EULA.

Ofcourse ultimately it is the organized state that should promote and enforce quality standards to marketable products.

Where are the s/w quality standards that vendors have to adhere to?

People who care about s/w quality should go for a vendor with a track record in this respect. MS has a long record of the EXACT opposite.

Even in the presense of an EULA, comsumers should be protected or guaranteed minimum quality.

-m
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Laughable PR flannel  jellyclock | 05/26/04
Yawn. Nothing new here.  BruceS_z | 05/26/04
MS, please get your money back... it didn't work.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 05/26/04
You mean like all the Apache flaws?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/26/04
The web servers with the most flaws that cause the most problems is IIS  DonnieBoy | 05/26/04
But is it the server of choice  John Dulles | 05/27/04
ha ha ha  FreeBSD | 05/27/04
Biased? surely not!  agottschald | 05/27/04
Lesson learned from Firestone!  kd5auq | 05/26/04
Bad Analogy  IH8DOTNET | 05/26/04
Not quite...  ryusen | 05/26/04
Fire Up the Lawyers  IH8DOTNET | 05/27/04
and you so cleverly ignored a key part of my argument  ryusen | 05/28/04
There are laws  michael-t | 05/26/04
Important possibilities  Anton Philidor | 05/26/04
Addendum  Anton Philidor | 05/26/04
Post-addendum...  Confused by religion | 05/26/04
How is that a change?  Anton Philidor | 05/26/04
You get what you pay for  seosamh_z | 05/26/04
You forgot about one thing........  middle of nowhere | 05/26/04
you're assuming...  stephen732@... | 05/26/04
C/C++ Considered Harmful  awalkerco | 05/26/04
c# is a cheap knockoff - nt  stephen732@... | 05/26/04
You're right about C/C++  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/27/04
Ada runtime makes many checks  Andyvan | 05/27/04
Yes, but not for the reasons you might think....  jdickey_z | 05/27/04
More innovation.  Cardinal_Bill | 05/26/04
Come on Bill, you know better.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/26/04
A Yes or No answer only to this question.  Cardinal_Bill | 05/26/04
Waste of Space  agottschald | 05/27/04
(NT)Hey look who we got here taking odd pot shots, you'r like semi-retired?  Spin_Masterz | 05/26/04
Bitty, Bitty, you've acquired Foot-In-Mouth Disease! Heh, heh  dicktaurus@... | 05/27/04
How useful is this argument?  John Dulles | 05/27/04
Microsoft, as an example, makes a spesification each year!  B.O.F.H. | 05/27/04
You're right on target  springerj | 05/27/04
It is a reality  michael-t | 05/26/04
The buck stops where...  limelight | 05/27/04

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