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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> On 2/9/2011 12:49 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> Anybody who sells software must become liable.
>
> In the U.S., software is expressive speech and cannot be
> legally constrained in this way. As it should be.

What about embedded software? of course, the safety case covers the
whole device, the software is only a part of the system. We sue the
company who built the car/heart monitor/xray machine.

I imagine that the software house that subcontracted the development
might well find itself in court as well.