The European Commision made a proposition that if it becomes a law, software developers may be held liable if their applications fail.

This proposal wants to extend the principles of consumer protection rules so it can cover software licensing. This short sighted people says that consumers need to have the guarantee that a licensed software will not cause data loss, system instability, or who knows what else they may include in this nonsense law proposal.

There’s absolutly no way a programmer or a team of programmers can guarantee a 100% bug free application. And that is a fact. Add the infinite configuration combinations that computers have today and you realize what’s next.

Only big corporations like Microsoft and IBM will be capable of writing sofware, elevating prices and eliminating the small developer who can’t afford to be sued because a conflict of memory in his application caused a customer some data loss. 

If this becomes law, I can see developers adding code in their applications to block a program from being installed if the computer don’t have exactly the required configuration making installation a real pain you know where.

Is there anbody who thinks this is a good idea? Please tell me how this can be good for anybody.

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