Liability for Software When Life is at Stake

“They apparently learned nothing from a hospital near Microsoft
Corporation turning into a massive botnet and it’s happening again,
this time in London. Yesterday’s reports indicate that 3 hospitals
were shut down due to Windows virus infections…

“Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told
a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source
developers should be liable for the security of the code they
write…

“While on a visit in Romania, where Bill Gates participated in
the celebration of 10 years since the Microsoft branch has been
running there, and the launch of Vista, Microsoft’s president
declared that, with the right ammount of administration, the new
Vista could run life support systems in hospitals.”

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