Welp, take a look at it:
If you buy a car from the dealer, it may break a few times down the line. Cars are very complex mechanical devices and they have to work well together.
The car is as analogous to the hardware and software we’re discussing here. There’s a key difference, however:
This software is intrinsically flawed. It was sold to us that way.
It’s my understand that if a car manufacturer discover their product is intrinsically flawed, they will RECALL the offending cars.
Keeping with our analogy, if Steinberg were manufacturing the cars, they’d keep releasing models that build on the same chassis, adding a few features, whilst leaving many of the old ones, and even creating new ones. In this situation, I believe a lawsuit would be inevitable.
Software developers responsibility is a relatively new domain, so I don’t think this has ever happened before? But I definitely think depending on the laws in your country, you could win.
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― George R.R. Martin