RE: Thought this was interesting

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

From: Bob Leif
To: Tom Moran et al.
Unfortunately, no hungry trial lawyer has really tried this. The
readership of Comp.Lang.Ada would be an excellent source of witnesses
for the plaintiff(s). I doubt if the present EULAs would be considered
by the courts to be a contract negotiated by equals. I believe this is
why the industry wants state statutes to protect them from the
consequences of malpractice. A few large product defect verdicts would
have a very positive effect on software engineering including the use of
Ada.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:49 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Thought this was interesting

The lack of public instances, and the language of EULAs, suggest that
you can't sue a vendor for buggy software.  In the rest of the world,
when people can't use the courts to resolve problems (eg, vendors of
illegal products) they develop other methods of conflict resolution.
Perhaps some mafia folks whose bookmaking operation lost money due
to a bug, will make the vendor an offer he can't refuse.