
What happens when you buy the words but they fail you. If you got them free, there is no liability. But there can be: a tort. Torts arise when you are injured or suffer loss outside a contract, arising from lack of reasonable diligence by
The minute you pay for the words, you are thrust into the deep and murky world of administrative law. Payment is only one form of consideration required to form a contract. I suspect that continued use/enjoyment/utility is the consideration for free software. But what of the software we don't know we're using, like
On 2015-02-12 07:12 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: the person causing the injury or loss. The ancient Debian ssh problem - where a well-meaning admin patched some code that used uninitialized variables, not realizing it would make connections less secure - could have created a tort. the low-level stuff that moves our bits about the world: can I choose not to use that if it takes more than a reasonable effort to find out what it is? Wiser folks may of course refer me to the reply given in /Arkell v. Pressdram/. cheers, Stewart (a slightly apprehensive One+/Cyanogen user)