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Thursday, May 09, 2002
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1020715 A lemon law for software? From The Economist print edition If Microsoft made cars instead of computer programs, product-liability suits might by now have driven it out of business. Should software makers be made more accountable for damage caused by faulty programs? Events of the past six months have shown just how fragile the industrial world's technological infrastructure can be. No question that terrorism can bring business districts, power grids, computer networks or air-traffic-control systems to their knees. But so, too, can stupidity, carelessness and haste....
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