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Re: License Feedback -- health and safety issues

• To: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: License Feedback -- health and safety issues
• From: "Ken North" <kennorth@s...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:28:50 -0700
• References: <200508170729.j7H7Smi3031378@l...>

Michael Kay wrote:
> I've always thought that it's likely that in most incidents of people being
> killed as a result of software bugs (or IT systems bugs), the software
> wasn't thought to be safety-critical at all.
>
> And as I said before, if your programming is negligent and it kills someone,
> disclaimers are very unlikely to protect you.

This thread is about software licenses but it seems there's a similar issue with
XML vocabularies, DTDs and schemas.

What if a flawed schema design results in an accident? For example, coding
incorrect constraints for allowable temperatures or pressures might cause an
instrument or a monitoring program to work from unsafe data.

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