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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable withthe extent to which luck..')
Yo Chance! On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chance Whaley wrote: > I don't remember IBM or EDS being sued on the times when ATC has failed. > Jeppeson hasn't been sued for issuing incorrect maps either. Software > programmers arent sued when monitoring machines in hospitals fail. Oh > that's right, because there are neat things called "Limits of > Liability", "Gross Negligence", and "Malicious Intent". Do some research. Just because you have not heard about it does not mean it did not happen. Jeppeson lost a BIG one after the AA crash in Cali. Jeppesson still has suits pending about Ron Brown's (US Commerce Secretary) going down in Kosovo. Technicare (a former client of mine) lost a BIG one after the runaway software on a CAT scanner fried a patient to death. Never heard of anyone dieing due to an ATC outage so that issue is still open. In any case, the comment I was replying to was about software not being able to hurt anybody. The US legal system found in two of the cases above that it can and has. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [email protected] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
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