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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Faulty languages and Liability
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 22:10:54 -0400
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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/bizliabilit
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