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Story: EC wants software makers held liable for code

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Bureaucrats meet adolescent twits!

There should be one uniform liability rule for all commercial transactions - the lack of that is what has messed up fields like medicine where what would be considered criminal irresponsibility is the rule and good practice the exception.

As long as the software makers can specify what it is they are guaranteeing, yes, they should be held to a guarantee.

Of course the bureaucrats who have never worked a day in their life want to torment the software companies by specifying the guarantee for them, but the EU's collapse into a writhing mass of bureaucracy is a separate problem. Even bureaucrats can get it right sometimes. People who sell a product or service need to be legally accountable that it work as advertized if any semblance of free market economics is going to work. Just because a bunch of programmers who act like 13 year olds don't want accountability or responsibility doesn't mean they should get carte blanche to sell dysfunctional garbage and keep their ill gotten gains.

The bureaucrats are right, for once, the adolescent twits who became programmers instead of growing up are wrong.

The devil is in the details, of course, which is to keep the bureaucrats from hijacking this idea to cover a lot of unrelated nonsense, and to keep the programmers from doing what the medical profession has done and water down the standards so far that nothing is ever 'wrong.'

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