Re: Introduction and possible thread

[Digital ChoreoGraphics <dcg@softcafe.net>]

In response to the concern expressed regarding legal issues, I 
can only say that law is not my field.  Hence I would be interested 
in hearing a lawyer's response to these concerns. 

On the target application side, my interest is in entertainment only. 
I do NOT intend for this software to be used by pilots for flight 
planning, or for any purpose other than entertainment and personal 
enjoyment. 

               WARNING - NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION

While I may use flight planning software to entertian myself with 
pre-flight analysis, I perform all critical flight planning 
calculations using at least two separate methods, one of which 
is by hand. 

               WARNING - NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION


At 08:20 PM 3/16/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Keith Brown wrote:
>> 
>> Well, you're probably right about lack of assets being a deterrent to
>> lawsuits. I guess at the time I was considering a shareware venture, and
any
>> business of any type that doesn't carry liability insurance is pretty
>> foolish, and then having insurance, bang!, instantly you have deep enough
>> pockets to sue. I think an open source or other licensing scheme where the
>> product is free for non-commercial use and the source code is available
>> would probably not have this problem, though again, I'm not sure of the
>> legal principles or precedents involved. 
>
>Another option is a LLC (Limited Libility Company).  It would limit your
>libility to some value based upon your investment in the company.  You
>then become just an employee of the company (well almost).  Then you
>carry a minimum of insurance and let the chips fall where they may...
>
>> I know I've seen articles recently
>> in some of the usual open source news outlets about aerospace companies
>> flocking to open source technology for embedded systems like avionics and
>> such, so I'm sure they are satisfied they can cover their ends.
>
>More likely because there is no clear way to pin the ownership and thus
>the responsibility on one specific person or company.  But clearly the
>Open Source model also has development advantages too..
>
>> If someone really has a beef with you though, they may want to make your
>> life a living hell for a few years, whether they will get anything monetary
>> out of it or not. And if they *should* win a judgement against you, whether
>> you have it or not doesn't make it go away.
>
>Yea, I suppose you are right..  But if you have 10 developers in 10
>states, you are not likely to get civil cases even filed because they
>would have to file 10 differant suits...  Their local courts cannot try
>the case w/o notifying you, and unless they can serve the papers
>directly, the case is going to be dropped.  (US Law I'm told)..  Now if
>you have offshore development... Things get even more unlikely...  I'd
>say that if somebody wants to come after me, there is little I can do to
>stop them, and little they will collect if they do.
>
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