[Lilug] On-topic to last night's meeting

[Robert Wilkens]

ON a side note, MacOS is built on BSD which is also an ‘educational’ (pirated) operating system, BSD=University of California at Berkeley I believe.. As such, pirating MacOS should be considered free to do, since they didn’t have a problem with that, and I wouldn’t dare use a Mac in industry running BSD.


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Again, pardon typos, my eyeglasses were lost, it’ll probably be a week or two until replacements arrive

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From: Robert Wilkens
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And this, again, is why  Linux should never ever be used in industy legally.  It’s educational, it’s open source clone of real UNIX which professional like myself have contributed to.. However, Linux ultimately is pirated software, which is valid for educational use, scientific experimentation and learning, but never in practice should it ever be used.

-Rob


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From: Robert Wilkens
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I saw a five line or so comment at the top of some source code disclaiming all warranties, expressed or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, etc. etc.

>From my understanding this is what they consider a “blanket disclaimer”

What separates scientists (people who research) from Engineers (people who practice) is that the practitioners HAVE to have responsibility for their products, like I said there are a lot of products today that are potentially deadly that rely on software, and if we’re talking murder or manslaughter, we CAN NOT just say “well, I said I wasn’t responsible, therefore I am not”.  

By the way, if any ‘software engineers’ in new York aren’t aware, you cannot legally call yourself an engineer in new York state without approval from NCEES (I believe it is called), this is a certification process for licensing, the term engineer is protected in new york state.  NCEES incidentally has a mailing address in the same town that I want to college.

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As this interested me I took a quick look on github and all I can find is that Atom is released under the MIT license.
Is this the "waiver" to which you refer?  The MIT license doesn't imply any warranty at all and doesn't require users sign any waiver that I'm aware.

https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/LICENSE.md
Nate

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 6:01 AM, Robert Wilkens <rob.wilkens at ieee.org> wrote:
I’ve noticed that there was a ‘blanket disclaimer’ on the ATOM source code shown.  I’ve heard these blanket disclaimers might start becoming invalid or disallowed as computers are more and more involved in tasks that involve life and death (such as self driving cars).  Clearly someone has to be responsible.   Does anyone here have opinions on the elimination of the legality of discarding all liabilities with a simple statement making that claim?
 
Rob
 
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