Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Internet Virus: SunOS patches
Message-ID: <12592@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 14 Nov 88 17:25:10 GMT
References: <76493@sun.uucp> <580@micropen>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <580@micropen> dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:

| It will be a long time before we have a responsible user community.  Some
| vandals will always be around.  But we must have responsible vendors to
| make it hard on them.

  I wonder if there is some legal obligation to fix known bugs in a
piece of software you sell? Obviously if vendors were held responsible
for unknown bugs, there would be no one selling software, or the price
would be totally out of reach. But is there an obligation to fix a bug
if you know about it?
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me