Solaris on your clients. It is fine. I hope SUN covers your liability as
well as the liability of their products.
I carry professional liability insurance. That's more in case
I knock over a server rack than if someone decides Solaris sucks.
Now, let's assume that I downloaded Ubuntu and I found a year later that the
OS was in fact malware, that it was sending some information to NoStop for
Don't be an ass. Should we assume that the moon is made of
cheese and that when it falls on France we can all make sandwiches?
Imprimus, your assumption is fantasy as can be proven BY LOOKING AT
THE SOURCE CODE, secondus, the Gnu license specifically states that
the author and provider of the program(s) is free from liability, and
tertius, the Windows license allows Microsoft to do anything it desires
including disabling any device or the operating system itself, even
changing the terms of the license at will, because YOU don't own ANY rights
to the software. MS reserves them all and merely grants you a temporary
license to use.
instance. Suppose, my accounts were stolen and my business suffered
irreparable loss. Because of that I am being sued by my clients. Whom shall
I blame?
Yourself, of course. Have you never heard of personal
responsibility? Don't worry, though, at least you'll soon have
lots of cheese sandwiches!
Who is the legal entity that can be sued to recover damages and losses?
Lol. You just try and sue Microsoft because some Windows bug
resulted in data loss. Let me know when it gets to the Supreme Court,huh?
If you still cannot understand what I am talking about
Without going into needless detail I'll venture to say that it's
a fair bet that I'm much more aware of the legal ramifications of software
licensing then you will probably ever be.
There are many, many factors to consider before you recommend a questionable
product irresponsibly to a business.
You're assuming the consequent, pal. Open source products are in
general far LESS questionable than many commercial products, because...YOU
HAVE THE SOURCE CODE. Many times when a small company or a contractor does
development work, or when even a well funded startup makes its first few sales,
there's a clause in the contract requiring escrow of the source code so that
if the provider goes out of business the customer can continue to maintain
the product until it's replaced. Posession of the source is quite effective
insurance against future problem.