[jacquesm]

I wonder what the commercial effect is of such a thing on MS. Because assuming that the SSDs are unrecoverable it might lead to sales of new machines or new Windows licenses. There is a fair chance that bugs like these end up making good money, the numbers are large enough that even a small fraction of the users being affected can translate into a serious windfall.

[hosteur]

They should be held liable if their software bricks hardware.

[p_ing]

Can you get Linus Bucks by replacing your efivars with Doom?

[hosteur]

You seem to be implying that Linus Thorvalds should also be liable for damage caused by Linux kernel.

I don't think the analogy is good. You might be better off replacing Linus with Apple and Linux with macOS. In that case, I would definitely think Apple should be held liable if an update to macOS bricks some hardware in a Mac.

But with Linux, it is different: You do not have a business relationship with Linus.

Sure, if you bought your Linux distribution from, say Red Hat, and it bricks your server, I think you might have a good case against Red Hat(IBM).

[p_ing]

You took my reply a little too seriously :-)

[outime]

Torvalds* but I'm sure he'd not mind the extra H :)