we can smell burning bullshit in a 3000 mi. radius from Redmond.

"People have every right to expect reliable, secure software," said Jay Nickson, a security trainer at Ronin Software Group in West Chesterfield, N.H. He added that developers should be responsible if errors in their software result in lost profits, lost hours or bodily harm. He even suggested that it might be time for a "software users' bill of rights."

But Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, a security research organization in Bethesda, Md., said that's a long shot. A routine check of the terms of the agreement included with every shrink-wrapped package of software from Microsoft and other developers would show that users "have no rights at all," he said.

So.. who is forming the PAC for Software Bill of Rights ???

What? you say that no one has quite gotten around to it? Too much fun to piss and moan 24/7 since ~ 1993? Too much like a 'union' maybe - to 'organize' all them induhviduals. Yeah, that must be the reason. Oh well.

{sigh} Well, maybe in 2002 - right after extended vacation. If it seems like the thing to do, then.



Now if every (well Lots) IT-employed person were to donate a mere $5: how much PAC would that buy in Year1?



Of course it isn't quite the same thing as.. the world outcry over Nazi extermination camps, once these became common knowledge - and all. (What..? you say there Wasn't such? Oh. Right. Forgot.) never mind