It’s difficult to decide which of the two assertions made by the CCIA – that strict liability is “ill suited” to software or that “innovation” is the defining characteristic of the industry – is the more preposterous. For more than 50 years, the tech industry has been granted a latitude extended to no other industry, namely avoidance of legal liability for the innumerable deficiencies and vulnerabilities of its main product or the harm that those flaws cause.
Wonder if that ability to just go and do – break things in the parlance – without permission from the bureaucrats might be one of the reasons for that striking advance in that industry?