On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
NAIAL? Nor Am I a Lawyer?
Yes. I should join Acronym Abusers Anynomous, really.
Again, I have to wonder where some kind of disclaimer isn't possible; for years large software companies not excluding Apple and Microsoft have been making software that from time to time unintentionally does considerable damage (completely erases your hard disk contents) and have thus far evaded mass legal annihilation[1]
It would be, but you would need to incorporate terms and register the subscriber's express consent somehow. The terms would have to be vetted by our learned friends, so that they don't contravene any current legislative rights that the subscriber might have, because if one or more do, the entire set of terms might be declared nil and invalid.
[1] Say, sine I'm making up arbitray facts and numbers, only 0.01% of Windows installations do some kind of damage or make undesirable or unadvertised changes that require manual intervention or correction, the size of a possible class action suit would be enourmous.
You should look at Apple's infamous "rm -rf /" update to iTunes for MacOS X... -- Regards, Juha C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog