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I'm curious on how responsibility works in this case, e.g. a driver can be held accountable for causing an accident, but who is accountable for bugs causing accidents? The software house? I can only imagine the price of civil responsibility insurance for this...


The software industry has a tradition of inserting a "Disclaimer of Warranty" and a "Limitation of Liability" into all licenses. Do those hold up in court? I don't know.

It is bizarre. Imagine if car companies did that.

Example 1: The GNU GPL, sections 15-17, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Example 2: Microsoft Services Agreement, sections 11 & 12: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-service...




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