Hardware and software liability by Tim Tompkins

                    


 What is a end user license agreement?

Is the contract between the licensor and purchaser, establishing the purchaser's right to use the software.The user has the choice of accepting or rejecting the agreement. The installation of the software is conditional to the user clicking a button labelled "accept".Most commonly, a EULA will attempt to hold harmless the software licensor in the event that the software causes damage to the user's computer or data, but some software also proposes limitations on whether the licensor can be held liable for damage that arises through improper use of the software.

 Do you agree or disagree that the developer should be responsible for his or her development of hardware or software products? Explain your answer.

 Im agree because the developer have to be responsible for this own development of the hardware or software products. His work is to en charge that everything is working efficient in the system, and if something isn't working is their fault because they had not been taking charge of their work.

What are the three levels of loss described in the article?

A second level of loss includes the cost of providing emergency service during the failure of the primary service. Should a product fail, a temporary fix often needs to be applied immediately to allow the customer to continue operation in a semi-normal manner, especially for mission-critical systems in hospital, military, and numerous other important applications. Also in this category is the cost of restoring data, should it be necessary.The third level of loss is long-term. Should a company's systems fail, either due to their own hardware and software, or that which they have purchased or licensed from another company, customers may no longer be willing to trust that company with their business, so the company's long term reputation, and consequently profit, are diminished.

Should hardware and software liability be treated the same or differently? Explain your answer.

Both should be treated the same because this two are important to the company, and if one them is damage it would cost to the company.It is a important document that would be response and taking care of the damage in software or hardware. The hardware and software liability is a license that would make the two parts (user and company) take responsibility in a bug of the system.

  Source:
 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/fall00/ethics/papers/tompkt.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement