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Toshiba Settling Billion Dollar Lawsuit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-billion-with-a-b-kids dept.

male writes "A couple of ambulance chasers found out that Toshiba ignored a minor bug in it's hardware ten years ago, and is now suing them over it. Now Toshiba could be out 2 billion (with a B) dollars! The guys who brought the suit get a couple thousand, and the lawyers get a over 100 million... " You should read this article. It's pretty freaky.

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  1. Implications by Eternal+Darkness · · Score: 5

    I would like to know one thing: If a hardware manufacturer can be hit this hard because of a rather minor bug in one of its hardware products that hasn't really caused any damage...


    Then why can we not hit Microsoft, a software company, just as hard when their OS crashes and people lose data because of it? Damages caused by this one are quite well documented, and don't tell me Microsoft is ignorant of this fact.
    It is because of Microsoft that the general public thinks that having to reboot an OS every week or every few weeks is OK. To me, the OS is more important than the floppy drive, as I can do without one but not the other. I run Linux, but at work I am forced to use Windows. It has crashed on me numerous times while I was in the middle of something. I save my work frequently, and it still has cost me a lot of time spent redoing work that should not have been lost. What about the company I work for? When I have to redo work like this, they lose money.
    How many other companies out there are affected by this?

    While I think this suit against Toshiba is a bit blown out of proportion, this is a great thing if it is any indication of big business in the IT industry actually being held liable for shoddy products.