OT: reasoning behind open vs. closed SSH

[Christian Vogel]

Hi Ben,

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:09:05PM -0600, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> >   2 - legal liability
> This one has urked me.  Everyone keeps claiming, "Oh closed source
> products are better due to legal liability."  However when you ask any
> commerical company if they will pay for any product destruction or breach
> to a system.  You'll see most of them laugh you out of the room.

It's not about what the contract or license-agreement says,
it's just about what the pointy-haired *think* when they buy something
from $BIGNAME. Say, if they feel that some bug was introduced very negligent,
they might just want to sue $BIGNAME anyhow, instead of 100 different
individuals in the Free/OpenSource case...[1]

	Chris

[1] This is not meant as an judgement about ssh.com but rather about
	commercial software in general!

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