• From: Scotland, Cold
  • Registered: 2009-01-17
  • Posts: 850

Topic: Disclaimer

ZDNet reports that the EC is looking into making software have a minimum requirement of stability and forcing users into support and maintenance agreements.

In effect, a project like Crunchbang could never get to where it is now, as the now infamous disclaimer would not be legal.

I, for one, will continue to use things without any support/maintenance. The disclaimer is clear, and the EC should not get rid of the "release early, release often" mantra FOSS has. According to them, KDE4.0 shouldn't have existed then, eh? wink

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  • From: Asia
  • Registered: 2009-02-02
  • Posts: 937

Re: Disclaimer

So it's time Corenominal started checking house prices in Oslo or Istanbul? wink

Would this putative law prevent Corenominal distributing the .iso or simply prevent someone like Dell from pre-loading Crunchbang onto their laptops? I guess they're never going to prevent some guy setting up a website and then recommending people doing a minimal Ubuntu install then running a few scripts - he could still post any sort of disclaimer he felt like.

But the 'transferral' of liability will come increasingly to the fore. Entities like schools, cafes, even ISPs will start voicing opposition to folks who aren't connecting with the 'right' software.

How long before we're all building systems from scratch using sources that someone downloaded before the police took away the servers that the repos were on and then communicating via mesh networks?

Until then enjoy! smile

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  • From: New Hampshire, USA
  • Registered: 2009-01-05
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Re: Disclaimer

Mehall wrote:

ZDNet reports that the EC is looking into making software have a minimum requirement of stability and forcing users into support and maintenance agreements.

Once, when I was 5, I fell down and skinned my knee in my grand parents driveway. Do you think we could get a law mandating rubberized driveways if we asked the nanny(state) nicely? 

Hey Canonical I hear North Carolina is interested in making deals these days.   Maybe RedHat would like someone to keep them company.

Last edited by fhsm (2009-06-11 18:19:35)

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  • From: Randorm 404
  • Registered: 2009-02-13
  • Posts: 1,750

Re: Disclaimer

thanks Mehall, this seems totally ridiculous to me, and in the end the consumer will probably loose on it, software is not exactly dishwashers or cars or whatever junk people like to buy, and what about the "free market" ? maybe the download page for #! should have a warning that said "do not download this free product because it may make the software industry go #!,or maybe it is time to start an opensourceinternetunderground where only open source software application works...

#!, all else is but a shadow!
  • From: Lincoln, UK
  • Registered: 2008-11-20
  • Posts: 4,427

Re: Disclaimer

Thanks for posting the link Mehall, it made me chuckle. big_smile

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