what is the situation wrt. ideas created by employees while employed ? who owns them ?

[Rajinder Yadav]

Replace software with gun, I wonder what the NRA would think of it... In fact what about a car? We don't hold a maufacture responsible, so why should developers be held accountable?

Unless the software is designed to cause harm, then it is the act that is criminal from inception.

Software could be designed to control explosion as in the timing of an engine, parts of the software could be redeployed for other purpose, like Hollywood FX and blowing things real big with different timing ;) ... Obviously the software designer or developer cannot be held to account for its use.  

Infact one could argue they used Linux to run the software and now more developers are exposed if we contiune with the logic?

Rajinder 

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On 30-Jun-09, at 10:20 AM, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Howard Gibson wrote:
Software does not explode, or fall down and crush people.

Software may be used to control something that explode or fall down and crush people, though. The question is whether the liability fall into the person who put the software in control or the maker of the software (assuming they are different person).

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