[Discuss] CrowdStrike

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 7/24/24 16:18, Steve Litt wrote:
> Before you call lawsuits nice, contemplate that it might cause
> employment contracts to have indemnification clauses. For developers,
> this would be anything but nice.

I would like computers to be treated a little more the way we treat 
normal stuff.

When Boeing commits felonies they don't have to go to jail as would you 
or I (something wrong there), but they still do get punished with big 
fines. I think that is a good thing. And no, I don't think individual 
Boeing workers should have employment contracts shoved down their 
throats that shifts Boeing's liabilities to them. That's why I also 
believe in laws and regulations to counter out the power imbalance 
between an individual employee and a powerful employer.

As much as the climbing gym or restaurant might like to be protected 
from liabilities by forcing customers to give a waiver, I also think 
that should not be allowed to stand either.

I don't think the cellphone company should be able to shove binding 
agreements down my throat by making me agree some 30-pages of giving 
them rights and powers.

(All this stuff is tricky. Actually working out the details is a good 
thing. Having actual laws and lawyers is a good thing. I don't pretend 
to know exactly how such laws should be written.)


-kb, the Kent who is not a Libertarian.


P.S. Libertarianism n.
 ?A political ideology premised on the assumption that eliminating 
government would have no unintended consequences.