[Dylan16807]

A service like this is more like someone giving you a ride.

And if they don't have brake pads, and negligently get into a horrible wreck, one where they walk away unharmed while you are injured? You probably have a case there.

[pmart123]

When airbags first came out, only expensive cars had them. I wouldn't be surprised if side airbags are still only found in nicer cars.

This seems entirely different though. It's more like hitchhiking. When you pay for an Uber or Lyft, there's a level of safety expectations in the car. When you pay for a black car, there's a higher level of expectations. When you don't pay anything, you are using it at your own peril. Now, this could be a bad business model or poor mousetrap for adoption. I'm not arguing with that.

[zaphirplane]

A case ?

You want to sue an open source sw maker for not providing a feature for free because when you expose your ES to an insecure network without that feature you put yourself at risk ?

How about you don’t put your ES in an insecure network without buying the feature or pay someone to write the feature for you.

Your analogy is misleading and wrong, my mechanic one is better

How about this I offer you a stranger a ride to a location convenient to me for free, you take the ride then demand I drop you off at another location otherwise you will run in the middle of the road and hurt yourself

[Dylan16807]

Data security isn't as serious of an issue as loss of limb, so there wouldn't be any legal wrongdoing in normal circumstances.

And no, your analogy doesn't make any sense. You keep talking about doing one thing for free, and refusing to do an entirely separate thing. That's very different from doing a thing for free but in a dangerous way.

And I'm not saying anything should be free anyway. Just that if you offer a service, don't make it pointlessly dangerous as an upsell tactic.