You guys are hilarious. OK. I give up. It never happens. I'll leave this thread alone. -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer On 11/10/2011 12:19 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Richard Kulawiec"<rsk@gsp.org>
Right. I know you can't and won't. I can't either. So we can summarily dismiss all the concerns about liability because they have no relationship to reality. You will not be suing BigFirewallCo, no matter how horribly their product fails, no matter how bad the damage is, no matter how obvious to all of us the failure is, no matter how culpable we might all agree they are, because (a) your pockets aren't as deep as BigFirewallCo's, and (b) you'd probably lose anyway (c) after 11 years and a lot of billable hours for everyone's attorneys. (s/you/I/ and everyone else, unless we happen to work for a Fortune 50 company...and probably not even then.)
Yeah, Rich, but come on: you and I -- and even his managers -- know that while that is true (that no one's actually going to sue anyone, and likely legally cannot anyway), that *still* won't keep Pointy Haired Bosses from making that *capability* a firm requirement.
That's why their hair is pointy.
Cheers, -- jra