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Would Vendor Liability for Bugs Kill OSS?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the code-clean dept.

Glyn Moody writes "Bruce Schneier has written an interesting column for Wired suggesting that vendors should be made liable for bugs in their software. But where would this leave open source developers? Would what seems like a great idea actually be the death of free software?"

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  1. Would Vendor Liability for Bugs Kill Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Bruce Schneier has written an interesting column for Wired suggesting that vendors should be made liable for bugs in their software. But where would this leave Microsoft? Would what seems like a great idea actually be the death of proprietary software?"