alt Hacker NewsSoftware companies so far have been getting away with it, because the industry is relatively young versus others, and outside high integrity computing liability is yet to be a common expectation.
If everyone asked for returns, or sued, software companies the same way they deal with other goods, the atittude would most likely have changed by now.
Not to mention the whole EULAs ("we don't have any idea what we are doing here, please sign") disease.
> If everyone asked for returns, or sued, software companies the same way they deal with other goods, the atittude would most likely have changed by now.
How can they do that when they probably had to sign an arbitration agreement to use the product? Can't pull that shit with a box of oatmeal or most other physical items without software components.