Jerry Feldman  <gaf-noSPAM@blu.org> wrote:
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| > Manufacturers would simply purchase more expensive liability
| > insurance, raise the prices on their software, and continue to produce
| > software that is no more reliable. An even worse unintended
| > consequence -- when a bug was discovered, a company would likely go
| > out of business leaving nobody and nothing to maintain the software.
| Not only that, it would destroy some commercial software vendors. Let's
| say that company a buys software from vendor b. Company a misuses that
| software, and sues company b. Even though a misused the software, they
| can end up costing company b a large amount of money just to defend
| itself. Cessna stopped producing light single engine aircraft because of
| this. not because there was anything wrong with these aircraft (They had
| never lost a suit), but because of the cost of defending themselves. 
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Piper, not Cessna. And it went bankrupt, not just "stopped producing
light singles". That's why the current successor company is called
"The NEW Piper Aircraft Company". See:

  <URL:http://www.americancapital.com/news/press_releases/pr/pr19980921.html>


-Rob

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