Re: VA "drop dead" law

At 5:18 PM 4/8/94 -0400, STUART CASE, ESQ. wrote:
> When you think about it, the situation is not much different from
>repossessing a car when the payments have not been made, except that there
>is less potential for violence when the software self-destructs, compared
>to when the midnight riders make the Camaro disappear.

Then the proper legislative response would be to place custom software in the same legal light as a mechanic's lien on a car.

Since usually no title changes hands, and there is no physical thing being repossessed, your analogy is a bit off. Considering how some software people have abused such self-destruct schemes, a closer analogy would be a car leasor placing a bomb in the car that would go off if you didn't pay on time.

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