[brlug-general] Nobody should be liable

[willhill]

That looks like a politics discusion, but I'm happy to have it here.

Microsoft's monopoly position, software ownership and gross negligence make it 
a just target as outrage over insecure software grows.  The trick will be 
making sure that "gross negligence" does not get turned into another 
anti-competitive tool that harms free software and the industry in general.  

There's going to be more of this, and it's not going to depend on user action:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/19/1824221.shtml

If nothing changes, you and I will pay for it through banking fees, taxes and 
currency devaluation.