Re: new powers for employers to read employees' email

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From: seajays
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:34

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010270950410.9208-100000@www.uklinux.net>,
  Jason Clifford <jason@uklinux.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Angus McBastard wrote:
>
> > The fact is that a piece of software supplied without source code
is a
> > product unfit for consumption. This has been demonstrated
empirically
> > time and again. Further, shrink-wrapped software licencing as it
stands
> > today supplies no guarantees as to fitness of use of even *object*
code
> > and as such contravenes just about every consumer standard you can
think
> > of.
>
> This should certainly be seen as a key point in my opinion. When you
> purchase a peice of software that you have no right to fix or
otherwise
> alter you are entirely reliant upon the promises of the supplier in
terms
> of suitability and fitness for the purpose it is sold to meet.
>
> A computer program or suite of programs that crashes and causes data
> corruption due to errors in the programing is not fit for the purpose.
>
> In no other sector would it be seen as reasonable to require the
consumer
> to accept that a product is fit for the purpose it is sold for without
> having first seen and tested the product properly.
>

Now this issue is, I agree, and important one but it is an entirely
seperate issue to that of copyright.  This problem can be resolved
easily without removing peoples rights over their own work, simply by
enforcing current 'fit for purpose' laws.

There is no requirement for someone to show you how they did it, only
that it should do what they say it will.  The onus is on them to fix it
if it doesn't work, and the law should maintain that requirement.


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