rolling your own distro and the GPL (Re: [clue-talk] North Topic Track)

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:54:38 -0600
Nate Duehr wrote:

> Great hacker distro, still acting too immature to really be used where 
> "big iron" Unix distros are really used.   (Mostly because there's no 
> "one throat to choke" in Linux when something goes utterly wrong. 
> Companies need to know they can kick something upside the head -- 
> usually another company with plenty to lose -- if something goes wrong.)

In reality, have a look at the licensing agreements for any major software
package. The ones I've looked at have a disclaimer, and the terms
stipulate the the vendor has no liability for any loss occurring as a
result of usage of their software. Maybe that's changed. But have you ever
heard of anyone successfully suing Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, HP, or
any other software company over data loss or corruption due to a softare
bug?

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