There's no effective way for customers who aren't *large* businesses to "demand" anything.
What's needed is for someone with money to get bitten hard by an MS secuity flaw or stupid coding mistake *and* to be willing to go after MS in court.
If they have the time & money to spend, they might be able to get that "we don't claim the software will do anything" language in the license agreement thrown out.
If that ever happens, you'll see MS (and most other companies) suddenly spending a *lot* of time & money on preventing errors. Because they'll be legally *liable* to the customers.
Accountants *will* let you (heck, they'll sometimes *order* you to) hire lots of people if the alternativer is paying huge damages.
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Date: 2006-01-16 10:41 pm (UTC)What's needed is for someone with money to get bitten hard by an MS secuity flaw or stupid coding mistake *and* to be willing to go after MS in court.
If they have the time & money to spend, they might be able to get that "we don't claim the software will do anything" language in the license agreement thrown out.
If that ever happens, you'll see MS (and most other companies) suddenly spending a *lot* of time & money on preventing errors. Because they'll be legally *liable* to the customers.
Accountants *will* let you (heck, they'll sometimes *order* you to) hire lots of people if the alternativer is paying huge damages.