[long] Re: Legal traps in open source *WAY* OT.

[Doug.Palmer at csiro.au]

> I've lost count of how many times I have been through this 
> scenario; am I
> being negligent by not considering that the user might be negligent?

Depends on the level of service one claims to provide, I suppose.

If someone was doing this more than a handful of times and as a professional
service, I'd expect that they'd have worked out a methodology that helps
prevent the more common mistakes. It doesn't need to be fancy; a checklist
supplied to the user would go a long way. There'll always be unexpected
mistakes, of course, but every little bit helps and the mistakes can be
incorporated into the next checklist.

If someone was doing it just to help out a friend, well no.