From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-03 05:19:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.man.poznan.pl!news.nask.pl!news.cyf-kr.edu.pl!agh.edu.pl!news.agh.edu.pl!news.onet.pl!not-for-mail From: Andrzej Filip Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:12:00 +0000 Organization: It's for me to know and for you to find out Sender: anfi@priv.onet.pl@pg101.warszawa.cvx.ppp.tpnet.pl Message-ID: <3CD27D9B.8020305@bigfoot.com> References: <82347202.0205010735.1d1a66c3@posting.google.com> <3CD06A79.328F20BD@boeing.com> <3CD122DC.11A07036@brighton.ac.uk> <3CD16729.E695572@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pg101.warszawa.cvx.ppp.tpnet.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.onet.pl 1020427444 19761 213.76.102.101 (3 May 2002 12:04:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@onet.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 May 2002 12:04:04 GMT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pl Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23489 Date: 2002-05-03T12:04:04+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: >On 2 May 2002 11:41:27 -0500, Larry Kilgallen wrote: > >>In article <3CD16729.E695572@san.rr.com>, Darren New writes: >> >>>John English wrote: >>> >>>>I know who I consider the guilty party here... and >>>>the companies who lost out from the virus would stand more chance >>>>of a meaningful settlement from Microsoft than from a lone Filipino. >>>> >>>So who would you sue for the Morris worm that took advantage of a >>>similar hole in sendmail? >>> >>The person using sendmail, if they did not have a vendor on which >>they could pin it. >> > >How can one sue if the license agreements says: Use at own risk... no >responsibility ... etc, which also Microsoft says. I don't really see >that it is any better to buy software from Microsoft just because it is >a commercial company that one can give the blame? How can one get >anywhere in court with it? > I would call selling anything under such licence agreement a fraud. But I am not a lawyer :-) BTW Have you noticed that the "disclaimers" get longer and longer ? -- Andrzej (Andrew) A. Filip anfi@box43.pl http://www.polbox.com/a/anfi/ 366A 5DD7 7707 379C 9251 32AE C948 0BD2 7D99 688A expires: 2003-01-25 I may disagree with the following *random epigram* : I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something. -- Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil