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by 0xbadcafebee 224 days ago
Whoever made this needs to add a license right now with at least some kind of indemnity/no-warranty clause. If something goes wrong, the user can sue you, and likely win. Your nolongerevil.com website also needs a EULA w/indemnification before allowing users to register.
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khamidou 224 days ago
The user is going to win after going out of their way to install an aftermarket binary blob on their deprecated thermostat? Seems like a stretch no?
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0xbadcafebee 224 days ago
If the user was told by a smarty-pants computer person to do it, they'll assume it works and is safe. On the other hand, if something goes really wrong, and the user can convince a judge that the mystery binary blob was involved? And the author never said anything about it possibly being unsafe? Then the court can decide that the user had a valid assumption that it would be safe, and the author won't be able to prove otherwise.

They put these disclaimers into licenses because people have already won these kind of cases.

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khamidou 224 days ago
In that case wouldn't the blame lie in the smarty-pants person? When the web site says everywhere that it's beta quality?
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