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Holding Developers Liable For Bugs
sebFlyte writes "According to a ZDNet report, Howard Schmidt, ex-White House cybersecurity advisor, thinks that developers should be held personally liable for security flaws in code they write. He doesn't seem to think that writing poor code is entirely the fault of coders though: he blames the education system. He was speaking in his capacity as CEO of a security consulting firm at Secure London 2005."
YHBT, YHL, HAND
Everybody's a libertarian 'till their neighbour's becomes a crack house.
WOW. I am going to guess that you write open source code. Me, I don't, I'm not a coder and don't want to go through code line by line to find out if there are problems. If you right code and say it will do something it should not be the responcibility of the end users to figure out if you are full of it or not. I don't see how an open source coder should be any less responciable for what he does than anyone else. But really lets get down the the nuts and bolts of your problem. You don't like MS and perhaps a few other big software companies and nothing would make you happier than a totally one sided law that put them out of business because of mistakes in their code, while you get to walk away scott free after writen crap code that plenty of companies sell all over the place.