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Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..')

  • From: Dave Stewart
  • Date: Wed Jul 25 16:37:39 2001 
At 04:14 PM 7/25/2001, Dan Hollis wrote:

Microsoft is advertising "high security padlocks", but is instead selling
locks that dont work at all.
I actually talked to an intellectual property attorney about this today... just in passing, but his remark was

"Microsoft is not responsible for someone else committing criminal acts. If you leave your house unlocked, that doesn't mean it is NOT breaking and entering if someone comes in and steals things."