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Subject:Re: apologies From:eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 May 2003 10:09:39 -0400
Here's a possible legal reason not to appologise. An appology admits that you
made an error. With that admission it could be possible to sue for lost
time/productivity.
But then again, nobody has yet taken the software industry to task for the
millions (billions) in lost time and productivity due to required work-arounds
to get software to do what it clearly states on the box. It would seem to me
that every security hole ever plugged by Microsoft could possibly make for the
largest class-action suit ever.....
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