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Article #389Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: David Kaye
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:47
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:47
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John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote: >If I had Linux questions, there >was a whole network of people who could help. Windows "help" was useless >if a non-mass market application was involved. That's not the point. The point was liability for a "mission critical" situation. If Windows fails there are people to sue. If Linux fails, there is nobody to sue. Just so you'll understand this liability issue, I'll give you another example of this. Rick and Megan Prelinger operate the Prelinger Archives, which licenses public domain film and video to anybody who wants to use it for any purpose -- commercials, TV shows, art, whatever. So, what's this about licensing something that's already public domain? Well, just in case it isn't public domain, the sale of the license creates a paper trail of liability, should someone claim later that their copyright was violated. Basically, Rick and Megan are taking the liability burden off the companies that license the work and assuming the liability themselves. >What would be the point? It would be some lowly user against all of >their experts. I'm not talking about the "lowly user" suing, but let's say UCSF, where our organ transplant software has been used for over 10 years. Should Microsoft Windows have been THAT bad that it couldn't be relied upon, you can BET that the State of California, acting on behalf of UCSF would have sued the pants off Microsoft. But they haven't.
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