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Software Customer Bill of Rights

Posted by michael on from the we-the-people dept.

Cem Kaner of Badsoftware.com has written up a Software Customer Bill of Rights. Very appropriate considering our recent stories about Microsoft viruses, Dell's BIOS-clickwrap licensing agreement, etc.

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  1. Summary please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ok.

    I clicked on the link and was struck in the face by pages and pages of text. Fucking idiots.

    Executive summary, anyone?

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  3. smells like communism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Giving $25000 each citizen always means raising taxes (money can't go from nowhere!), causing more cash flowing through some 'central' (federal, state) entities, causing more corruption (as there's more to win), causing less incentive to do anything (as one as $25000/yr for doing nothing), causing less incentive to have one's own business (high taxes greatly inhibit business activiry), causing... etc.

    Don't wory about jobs lost ! History showed, that some jobs are going away (or number of people involved goes greatly reduced) and others are emerging. Suppliers need customers and customers need supply. If (somehow) suppliers will be able to lay all staff (propably lowering costs), customers won't have enough money for their goods and suppliers will be forces to lower prices.

    Imagine (purely teoretical) that some day all jobs will be replaced by machines. It would mean, that everybody will have to no income, so those goods may be given away for free at best. Suppliers to be operating in this enviromnent will have to create an 'self-hosting' system of which will also operate (and produce) for free.

    In practice, propably most people will go to jobs which (propably) can't be replaced by machines (or no one wants them to be), or jobs we are not aware of today. As more and more jobs will be gone, suppliers will have to lower prices to be able to sell those goods. Notice that food used to be relatively much more expensive in 1800s.

    Suppliers also can't rely on 20% of welthiest and leave 80% of citizen starving because of (potential) anger of those 80% which (paired with desperation) may lead to unpleasant consequences, even for corporations.

    IMO the only real threat is that corporate lobbyists will introduce more and more abusive laws, ignoring civil rights and constiturion.