[Am-info] SOFTWARE RESPONSIBILITY AS AN ARGUMENT AGAINST OPEN-SOURCE

[T. Guilbert]

In a message dated 2002 December 10 (Tuesday), timestamp 01:38 PM, 
   on the topic Re: [Am-info] SOFTWARE RESPONSIBILITY AS AN ARGUMENT
AGAINST OPEN-SOURCE,
   "Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net> wrote:

"|I have a legal question here that perhaps someone can shed some
"|light on:  does software fall into the realm "strict liability"? 

I know of no decision that has found that. 

"|To ask a different way:  are there any legal precedents that any
"|software product that has caused harm to a user ever brought  any
"|compensatory settlement for the user?

That is a different question.  "Strict liability" is a term of art. 
You are asking a much different question:  can a user recover damages
for defects in software?  The broad answer is yes; the _detailed_
answer is much, much more complicated. 


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