Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 12:35 pm

In article <0001HW.BF30E17400E9F459F0407550@news.verizon.net>, 
randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net says...

> No it is not.  It might be a bad idea for you to buy it, and if 
> you do, you get and deserve the results obtained.  It is not 
> 'just plain wrong' for Microsoft to sell commercial products.  
> If there is anything wrong in the software arena today, it is 
> that so many people are willing to pay good money for bad 
> products.  Now, you could argue that there should be a law 
> allowing people to sue over damages due to use of faulty 
> software, but to do so, you'd have to figure out a way to 
> overhaul the incredibly one-sided "End User License Agreements" 
> (EULAs) that we are forced to agree to in order to install 
> software.  

If people are allowed to sue for damages due to faulty software, why 
should distributors of open-source software be exempt from such 
remedies?

- Gerry Quinn

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