From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote at 01:41 this Wednesday (GMT):   
   > 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?   
      
      
   It also ends up affecting everyone when something goes wrong, which is   
   super annoying cough cloudflare   
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