Probably not and that’s a good point. If you compare our discipline to others it’s pretty new. It’s just a baby compared to say other engineering disciplines, architecture, etc.
It’s kind of a good point to drastically restrict liability disclaimers in software brought to the market (slightly more narrow than published — excludes open enough stuff) by companies larger than some income / investment / asset threshold. Every word Microsoft says about infeasibility of fixing a bug should go immediately into the case about false advertisement of Copilot.
Of course, one could imagine intermediate steps. If you protect it, you consider it worth protecting. So every issue that the vendor has prevented others from fixing (technical or legal means) and did not promptly fix (industry best practices say 90 days?) gives ground to unlimited product liability, no disclaimers. Let’s say ten years after release as the target, with gradual phase-in.
Has there been any industry that was not busy failing humanity until product liability got teeth?
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Probably not and that’s a good point. If you compare our discipline to others it’s pretty new. It’s just a baby compared to say other engineering disciplines, architecture, etc.
score 1 · canonical
It’s kind of a good point to drastically restrict liability disclaimers in software brought to the market (slightly more narrow than published — excludes open enough stuff) by companies larger than some income / investment / asset threshold. Every word Microsoft says about infeasibility of fixing a bug should go immediately into the case about false advertisement of Copilot.
Of course, one could imagine intermediate steps. If you protect it, you consider it worth protecting. So every issue that the vendor has prevented others from fixing (technical or legal means) and did not promptly fix (industry best practices say 90 days?) gives ground to unlimited product liability, no disclaimers. Let’s say ten years after release as the target, with gradual phase-in.
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