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Free Software at Risk Under Lemon law

mpawlo writes: "Newsforge published a piece I wrote on a lemon law for software. That is - what would happen if shrinkwrap limitation of liability clauses would be banned? I think Microsoft and the GNU Project would both suffer."

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  1. Re:Interesting comment - not by me by 56ker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I might point out that businesses are usually insured exactly for the reasons you would sue them. So sucessfully suing them for a software bug will not hurt them that much financially apart from higher insurance premiums the next year.