I believe that the UK Court is completely RIGHT about making liable a Software Company for Buggy Software, every IT Profetional and Software Company must be responsible for the quality of their software. Of course they must take also in cosideration, that to realize the same taks or calculations manually also represent posibilities to commit errors and miscalculations, more frequently.
It is important to set some limits to the liability, for example, an error factor below or equal to 5% should be allowable, meaning, if the software presents a 3% of transactions with errors, the error must be fixed but the Software Company should not be punished with fees or monetary charges, as long as the error in the application that produced this transactions is completelly fixed, but if the application presents 15% of transactions with errors, the Software company should pay for the monetary damage they inflicted and of course repair the error on the application. If the error is produced by 3rd party software, like the database engine, the Provider of the DB Engine should be made liable for this errors, of course read carefully the licence agreement and the support and warranties offered by your providers before buying the software, even if you are an experienced Developer and even if you used before the same software, minor changes on this terms could mean that you are completelly alone when a major error shows his face that will surelly replicate thru all your servers.
I also believe that if someone pays attention to this, Microsoft could and SHOULD be suited there for their many bugs in their software. I hope some Law Firm takes the case.
To make it Open implies that your work must be good, otherwise you would be ashamed to show it... On the other side of the coin there is MS that HIDE their MALICIOUS code by compiling it... and filling the memory and HardDisks with garbage just to make the PC slower and full of viruses... Proof of this malicious intention from MS is inside the "System Volume Information" directory on every PC, in which, I don't know why, the system stores copies of the user excel and microsoft word files!... Why?.... to fill the disk?...
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Liabilities of an IT Profetional
I believe that the UK Court is completely RIGHT about making liable a Software Company for Buggy Software, every IT Profetional and Software Company must be responsible for the quality of their software. Of course they must take also in cosideration, that to realize the same taks or calculations manually also represent posibilities to commit errors and miscalculations, more frequently.
It is important to set some limits to the liability, for example, an error factor below or equal to 5% should be allowable, meaning, if the software presents a 3% of transactions with errors, the error must be fixed but the Software Company should not be punished with fees or monetary charges, as long as the error in the application that produced this transactions is completelly fixed, but if the application presents 15% of transactions with errors, the Software company should pay for the monetary damage they inflicted and of course repair the error on the application. If the error is produced by 3rd party software, like the database engine, the Provider of the DB Engine should be made liable for this errors, of course read carefully the licence agreement and the support and warranties offered by your providers before buying the software, even if you are an experienced Developer and even if you used before the same software, minor changes on this terms could mean that you are completelly alone when a major error shows his face that will surelly replicate thru all your servers.
I also believe that if someone pays attention to this, Microsoft could and SHOULD be suited there for their many bugs in their software. I hope some Law Firm takes the case.
Surelly MS Exec is terribly missinformed
To make it Open implies that your work must be good, otherwise you would be ashamed to show it... On the other side of the coin there is MS that HIDE their MALICIOUS code by compiling it... and filling the memory and HardDisks with garbage just to make the PC slower and full of viruses... Proof of this malicious intention from MS is inside the "System Volume Information" directory on every PC, in which, I don't know why, the system stores copies of the user excel and microsoft word files!... Why?.... to fill the disk?...