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Message-ID: <200308271723.h7RHNDln014082@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: GOOD: A legal fix for software flaws? 

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:57:29 PDT, dhtml@...h.com  said:

> We need to hear more of this type of noise. Unleash the repo man on the
> puppy mill owner and his cohorts.
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5067873.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
> 
> A legal fix for software flaws?

Nope.

Targeting Microsoft may be a tempting idea, but it's fiendishly difficult to write the
laws such that Microsoft can be sued and the average open-source vendor can't.

And quite frankly, Microsoft has lawyers to fight lawsuits, and the open source
community doesn't.

You think things are bad *now*, imagine the scenario where Apache, Linux, the
various *BSD's, and almost everything under the GPL all disappear - none of those
have armies of lawyers to defend them. 
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