Re:Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows ...
by southwesterly on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:41AM
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When I bought my Dell pc in the 90s, I had to sign a disclaimer saying that I was not going to use it in the creation of nuclear weapons.
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Re:Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows ...
by perihelions on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:16AM
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That's just boilerplate isn't it?
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/std...
- "You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons."
Re:Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows ...
by cafard on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:18AM
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Seriously? I remember some freeware (a Scheme?) from the 1980s or 1990s that said that it was not provided for use in nuclear something--maybe just power, maybe weapons. It was not clear from the notice whether this was a political statement or a lawyerly defense against possible liability--at least I didn't inspect the statement closely enough to tell.
Re:Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows ...
by thequux on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:47AM
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That clause (which was a more general restriction on use in safety-critical systems) was definitely part of the Java EULA pre-OpenJDK, but I'd imagine that it was more widespread. As I understand it, it was very much a liability issue for Sun (not to mention the PR nightmare of being in any way a cause of a nuclear accident). If you wanted you could pay them a great deal of money to accept that liability, but they wouldn't do it for free.