"Stormin' Norman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:52:18 -0400, Wolf K wrote:

On 2015-10-17 09:36, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:52:28 -0400, Wolf K wrote:

you will see pressure to invalidate the EULA clauses
that abrogate any liability for consequential damages, a provision that
amounts to an admission that the computer will fail. The EU has already
taken steps to make software and hardware vendors more liable.

The above will only serve to dramatically increase prices, will probably
destroy the concept of freeware or
open source software and result in far less flexible, more
appliance-like, software.

In general, more regulation on the free-market stifles innovation,
reduces competition and ends up costing us
all much more in the long run.

Save regulations for those things which threaten life and limb. The
free market will weed out inferior
software. Expecting governments to do anything more efficiently than
the free market seems somewhat
misguided.

Ah, if only there were in fact a free market. It's an ideal more
honoured in the breach than th'observance, to quote somebody or other. ;-)


A specious argument. My business is part of the free market, I operate in
it everyday. Sometimes I win,
sometimes I lose, but everyday it is up to me which happens.


You're funny. Microsoft is one of the most successful things in the history
of the universe. But it has only done two or three things right and is
living proof that the Govt is frequently as efficient as private sector
entities. If you get the govt out of business, you have some tycoon
deciding how much you have to pay for bandwidth. And everything else.