Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails.

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Articles at this site:

Bad Software: Overview

Bad Software: Table of contents

Bad Software: Chapter 1

Customer Satisfaction: Liability for Bad Software and Support. SSPA Executive Forum, October 1997.

Customer Satisfaction: Software Customer Dissatisfaction. May, 1997.

UCC Article 2B:Detailed objections to August 1, 1998 Article 2B draft.

UCC Article 2B: Restricting Competition in the Software Industry: Impact of the Pending Revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code. Ralph Nader's Appraising Microsoft conference, November, 1997.

UCC Article 2B: Article 2B is Fundamentally Unfair to Mass-Market Customers. Analysis submitted to the American Law Institute, October 1997.

UCC Article 2B: Legal Issues and Software Quality: Keynote presentation at the7th annual meeting of the Software Division of the American Society for Quality, Montgomery AL, October, 1997.

UCC Article 2B: Software Liability. Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October, 1997.

UCC Article 2B: Engineer's overview (A new law of software quality)

UCC Article 2B: Not quite terrible enough software: SEPG conference presentation, March 1997.

UCC Article 2B: Problems from the customer's view. Part 1: Underlying Issues. UCC Bulletin, Jan, 1997.

UCC Article 2B: Problems from the customer's view. Part 2: List of key issues. UCC Bulletin, Feb, 1997.

UCC Article 2B: Defining a serious bug under 2B

UCC Article 2B: What remedies are available to customers

UCC Article 2B: Hypothetical examples--how 2B treats breach of warranty

UCC Article 2B: Letter: Controversy over consumer-side publicity of 2B issues.

Digital Signatures: The Insecurity of the Digital Signature, September, 1997.

Law of Software Quality: Quality cost analysis: benefits and risks. The economics of software quality.

Law of Software Quality: Software negligence and testing coverage

Law of Software Quality: Liability for defective documentation

Law of Software Quality: Liability for defective content

Law of Software Quality: Computer malpractice Law of Software Quality: Lawsuits, lawyers, and quality-related costs

Software Testing Contracts: Dispute resolution

Software Testing Contracts: Indemnification and warranties

Software Testing Contracts: Outsourcing successfully

Software Testing Contracts: Outsourcing checklist


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The articles at this web site are not legal advice. They do not establish a lawyer/client relationship between me and you. I took care to ensure that they were well researched at the time that I wrote them, but the law changes quickly. By the time you read this material, it may be out of date. Also, the laws of the different States are not the same. These discussions might not apply to your circumstances. Please do not take legal action on the basis of what you read here, without consulting your own attorney.
Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to Cem Kaner, kaner@kaner.com.
Last modified: Tuesday November 11, 1997. Copyright © 1997, Cem Kaner. All rights reserved.