Re: Netfilter vs commercial

[Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>]

Jason Opperisano wrote:
> and as an aside--i find it hard to believe that there are people out there
> saying something along the lines of "we use commercial software becuase we
> can sue the manufacturer if it breaks."  i know no one actual reads those
> EULA's that are presented at install time--but they say "if this software
> breaks, you can't sue us."  where was that big lawsuit against microsoft for
> damages resulting from <insert favorite ms exploit here>?

It is more along the lines "we can blame them".  In (some of the) 
manager's heads, if you donwload something from the network for free and 
it breaks, it's your fault (and manager's for allowing you to do so). 
If you pay for it, it is vendor's fault.  And if you blame somebody, 
there's always somewhere at the back of the head that you can sue them 
too (althogh it is not true).  Stupid and ignorant, I know.

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