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Eulas and liability

Bridges faling down, planes blowing up, tyres exploding, Microsoft crashing and leaking like a sieve have one thing in common. They are all disasters!
The othr thing material objects and software have in common is that product liability is involved.
"A product must be fit for the purpose for which it is sold" is the keystone of this law.
On this basis, Microsoft is liable as are any other software makers who sell products for $$$.
Using a craftily worded EULA to escape from the product liability laws is not acceptable to any person who bothers to think about it.
I seem to remember somebody came up with Win98Lite which was a stripped down version of the Win98. No IE etc included. So it is possible for M$ to produce a no-bell or frills OS and let the buyers install all their peripherals from the orginal manufacturer's products directly. Without the thousands of drivers that M$ routinely includes, the OS would be lean and mean and possible to build securely.
One could use whatever browser, CD player etc. without having conflicts arising leading to the blue screen of death, freezing up etc.
Putting aside all the logical reasons for doing it the "simple" way, M$ should be held accountable for all the "holes" in its products that make it EASY for hackers as M? is responsible for the products it offers for sale to the general population and to the computer hardware manufacturers.
All the chimeras about "Intellectual property rights" do not change the above basic realities. M$ by its attack on LindowsOS worldwide shows that Microsoft knows its way of dooing business and building an OS is so badly flawed that the very idea of another type of OS succeeding is anathma to them as it is the ringing of the bell signalling the eend of their totally unjustifed domination of the software OS field.
Dirty tactics to crush all opposition merely proves that Microsoft does not build or sell a truly efficient product or even half-way efficient and most certainly does not make a secure system that is "ft for the purpose for which it is being sold".

Posted by: TokyoPete   Posted on: 03/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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