Re: [ILUG-BOM] [INFO] Software Liabilities.

On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 9:36 pm, Aveek Bhattacharya wrote:

It must be kept in mind that it is very unfair (to put it mildly) to expect free (as in beer, if not speech) software to come with a warranty. One cannot expect a certificate of quality and terms of warranty for software developed by volunteers.

why not? if free software is not professional and quality assured, of what use is it? since the software is free, the liability for breach of warranty or defect of quality would be different from the liability arising out of the same defects in commercial software. This is something to be worked on - but IMO responsible authors of free software should certainly give assurances of quality and warranties