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Originally posted by Cyrien:

My post wasn't against computer manufacturing, who are still held accountable for the mistakes they make in their machines as are the auto inudstry and other manufacturing industries.
My point was that in all these industries, the automotive, the computer making, the banking, etc... there is always accoutability to the indivual Users for a product that fails. There is not the same level of accountability for software. And there should be. And if you want to go back in time then you can find accountability to the user for defective merchandise even 1000's of years ago. Checkout Hammurabis code. If the house you build for another collapses and kills the owner or son or slave etc... accountability for the job you do for someone else in the oldest written law code.

Mmm. And who is accountable if you select un unstable site to build your home on, and prevent the builders from learning of it?

Who is accountable if you let your tires go flat, but insist on driving on them anyway, and something goes wrong?

Essentially your accountability would drive the -smaller- publishers of software out of business. I can go into any PC store and put together at least 1000 combinations of software. Add to that OS and driver updates (even including ONLY those that improve performance or add features) and the number of possibilities gets ridiclous. And any one of those possibilites could cause a problem.