[consulting] Contract > Developer liable for bugs?

Jason Flatt drupal at oadaeh.net
Thu Aug 7 03:05:23 UTC 2008


On Wed Aug 6 2008 4:20:49 pm Sam Cohen wrote:
>
> When building a Drupal site, I would never assume liability for bugs,
> unless bugs are very clearly defined as part of something I wrote.   It's
> not like they're paying a $100,000 licensing fee for the software.  It's
> open source after all. There are going to be bugs -- 
>

I've got news for you. There are bugs in $100,000 licensing fee software. It 
doesn't matter whether the source is open or closed. Making excuses for open 
source software doesn't help its acceptance.


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