RE: Faulty languages and Liability

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: David Botton et al.

I was hoping to find a lawyer to speak on software product liability at
SIGAda 2002. If anyone knows of an attorney, who wishes to become very
rich, this would be a golden chance for that attorney. SIGAda has an
abundance of expert witnesses. In my own field, the FDA regulations
should be stronger than the Ada mandate ever was. Unfortunately, the
FDA's own programmers do not know about Ada. Unfortunately, current
corporate mentality seems much more prone to respond to fear than to
desire to do the job right.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of David Botton
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 7:11 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Faulty languages and Liability

I have been saying for year the day would come that software authors
would
start to be found liable for their bugs... the time is approaching....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020615/tc_nm/bizliab
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y_software_dc_1

<<
Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic say most reported security
incidents are due to software defects that could easily be fixed.
>>

Using Ada is the first step to solving these problems! Now we need to
get
some spokes people to help these lawyers go after faulty software
manufactures for using faulty languages too :-)

David Botton