Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..')

At 04:14 PM 7/25/2001, Dan Hollis wrote:

Microsoft is advertising "high security padlocks", but is instead selling locks that dont work at all.

I actually talked to an intellectual property attorney about this today... just in passing, but his remark was "Microsoft is not responsible for someone else committing criminal acts. If you leave your house unlocked, that doesn't mean it is NOT breaking and entering if someone comes in and steals things."