From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 13 Dec 2025 14:08:25 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:   
      
   > Le 13-12-2025, bonkmaykr  a écrit :   
   >>   
   >> This isn't an uncommon thing for FOSS developers once they're depended   
   >> on, despite the clear disclaimers that they provide zero warranty.   
   >   
   > That disclaimer isn't limited to FOSS. Last time I checked Microsoft   
   > licence, I saw the same guaranty. But if big companies know they can't   
   > sue Microsoft, they believe that guaranty is only there to protect big   
   > companies, not FOSS developers.   
      
   There is this irony in an excuse often put forward by BigCorps™, as to why   
   they prefer to pay lots of money to proprietary companies like Microsoft,   
   instead of using Free software and managing their own support thereof: the   
   “one throat to choke” excuse. That is, they claim that, in the event of   
   problems with the software, they can go back to the owning vendor to get   
   it sorted out, there should be no pointing of fingers at others.   
      
   Except it doesn’t work in practice, does it? When was the last time a   
   company or Microsoft (or Oracle, or whoever) was successfully sued over   
   the (lack of) quality of its software?   
      
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