By Field Fisher Waterhouse
Published: Thursday 31 August 2006
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Name
Charles McCreary
Location
Kilgore, TX
Occupation
Engineer
Comment
"OSS licences contain very few (if any) of the warranties that might generally be included in proprietary software." Have you actually read any EULA's recently? I can't recall a single fitness for purpose warranty in any software, open source or not.
With respect to possible infringing code in open source code, I find that highly unlikely. SCO vs. the IBM and the rest of the world is having a hard time finding any.
Oh dear ! For someone claiming to be a legal profe...
Simon Hobson
All round a good article, but it does mention the ...
Symon Chalk
"OSS licences contain very few (if any) of the war...
Charles McCreary
A company who writes software that is found to inc...
Richard Steiner
This article is inaccurate, and needs a complete o...
Anonymous
Can I suggest the author of this article reads the...
Anonymous
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