bz wrote:


>> You can't claim insecurity when there weren't any security guarantees
>> given in first place.
>
> I am not a lawyer, but there is a concept under law that is called
> something like 'fitness for purpose' or some such.
>
> You sell someone a device that is supposed to do a task, say clean freshly
> killed chickens
> and it fails to perform the intended task, lets say it leave 1 in 1000
> uncleaned,
> there is something called an 'implied warranty of fitness'.
>
> Microsoft's software FAILS the implied fitness for service


They do?

> If it were not for the 'fine print' in the license, they would have been
> sued into bankruptcy by now.


The real cause is that warranty for fitness and alike is explicitly excluded
for software, which is quite reasonable to a certain extent. In the USA
totally, in Germany the only non-excludable warranty is for seriously
careless defects.