full-disclosure - Anti-MS drivel

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Message-ID: <20040120180109.GC31460@sherohman.org>
From: esper at sherohman.org (Dave Sherohman)
Subject: Anti-MS drivel

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:12:46PM -0500, Mary Landesman wrote:
> On  January 20, 2004 11:55 AM, "Tobias Weisserth" claimed:
> > And the blame goes on MS for this. Nobody else.
> 
> There is absolutely nothing I can do to secure my home from break-in. I can
> minimize the risks, but I cannot alleviate the risk entirely. However, we
> don't blame the builders when a home invasion occurs. We rightfully blame
> the burglar.

If a builder sold you a home with no locks on the doors and no
latches on the windows, I suspect that he could be successfully sued
in the modern "blame everyone in sight" environment of the U.S.  And,
unlike a number of other cases, I would agree with that, on the basis
that (unless the home was in an extremely remote location) the
builder was intolerably negligent to omit those locks and latches.

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