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The policy draws the liability line: what changed in v1.4.0
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!shot pl-shell.webp | images/ | The four moves of the accountability shell game, from Ralf Thomas's post, and what a written behaviour policy changes in each. Without one, every move has an easy answer; with one, the question becomes whether the product honoured what it was explicitly told. | comparison
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!shot pl-lines.webp | images/ | Two directions of liability.liability: Towardstowards the world, theand deployer answers for what its agent did, as the tribunal held in Moffatt. Betweenbetween the deployer and the vendor, decided by the written policy decides whose failure it was: inside the reach and unforbidden, the deployer's; explicitly forbidden and done anyway, the product's.policy. | diagram
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