On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > However, were an individual programmer to incure liability (the only > > way I can think of off hand is by deliberately caused harm, such as > > sneaking in a disk eraser), the corporation won't protect that > > individual. > > We would likely pursue criminal charges against someone who caused harm > with malice aforethought. However there are negligence scenarios, for > example a maintainer who accepts a patch without realizing that it contains > a trojan-horse program. I want to shield our developers from individual > liability in that sort of case. > > > It will, howver, protect the other developers, who could potentially face > > liability, or at least incur staggering defense costs. > > However, the legal costs of being right aren't small. > > Did you notice that The Linux Mall was selling legal liability defense > plans for programmers? I would hate to have every developer need to pay > for that. Having a corporation sounds like a much better idea.
hmm. Bruce, we might be able to use that as a selling point to have more upstream authors become the debian maintainers. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
